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Asistencia Domiciliaria). But in 1898 at 

 the end of the War of Independence he 

 found an opportunity under the American 

 Intervention of entering the field of Public 

 Health and Sanitation to which he has 

 devoted himself without respite ever since 

 and in which he has held successively many 

 offices: Local Inspector; District Inspector; 

 Disinfection Officer; Inspector-General of 

 the Department; Secretary of the Local 

 Board of Health of Havana; Executive 

 Head of the Department of Health, etc. 



As health officer Dr. Lopez del Valle has 

 contributed to the public health by many 

 practical suggestions and regulations look- 

 ing to the reduction of means of contagion 

 and infection. In association with Drs. 

 Furbusch and Jacobsen he had an active 

 part in founding the first dispensary for 

 ailments of the lungs. And he was instru- 

 mental in having Arbor Day adopted as a 

 holiday. 



Among his publications are : El Departa- 

 mento de Sanidad de la Habana, su organ- 

 ization, procedimientos y marcha (1905), La 

 nationalization de las servicios de Sanidad 



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