ROBERTS 



Along with Doctors Guiteras, Agra- 

 monte, Barnet, and Lopez del Valle, Doctor 

 Roberts was one of the most effective 

 co-laborers in the work initiated under the 

 American Intervention for the public 

 health of Cuba, as he has been one of the 

 ablest of those who have maintained the 

 sanitary policy then adopted. 



Dr. Roberts was Delegate of the Cuban 

 Government to the Exposition in St. Louis 

 (1904) and to the Pan-American Health 

 Conventions in Mexico (1907), Costa 

 Rica (1909), and Santiago de Chile (191 1). 



He was also Acting President of the 

 National Red Cross Society of Cuba; and 

 at present is a Member of the National 

 Board of Health ; Member of Special Com- 

 mission of Infectious Diseases and also 

 Member of the Bureau of American Re- 

 publics in Washington. 



He is author of several scientific works 

 on Medical and Sanitary matters and also 

 inventor of an apparatus for generating and 

 injecting hydrocyanic acid gas, which is 

 employed to advantage by the Sanitary 

 Department for the destruction of all kinds 



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