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"ALL ABOUT CUBA" 



Copyright, 1920, by the Mnnson Steamsliip Line 



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Volume XVIII 



MARCH, 1920 



Number 4 



CUBAN GOVERNMENT MATTERS 



CONSULAR APPOINTMENTS 

 Eai-ly in Decenilier, 1919, the followiug 

 Consular Appointments Avere made : 

 Senor Emilio Lufriu, consul to Lyons, 

 France ; Williback F. Pais, consul to 

 Boml)ay, India ; Victor Ceballoa, consul 

 to Quito, Ecuador. The chancellors 

 appointed were Seiior Lorenzo Aragones 

 y Machado, in the Cuban consulate at 

 Tampico ; Senor Ignacio Agramonte y 

 Bosa, chancellor at Gonaives, Haiti. 

 Seiior Enrique Costa y Pane was recog- 

 nized as vice consul of ilexico in San- 

 tiago de Cuba ; Senor Charles Forman, as 

 consul of the L'nited States in Xueva 

 Gerona, Isle of Pines ; Seiior Roger Le 

 Felmsey, as consul of Roumania in 

 Habana ; and Seiior .Juan Camayo as 

 consular agent of France in Plolauin. 



PATENT-MEDICINE REGULATIONS 

 According to an article in the Diario 

 de la Marina, under date of February 13, 

 1920, an Executive resolution was pro- 

 mulgated on February 11, 1920, by which 

 articles 46 and 47 of the Reglamento de 

 Farmacia of April 23, 1913, are finally 

 put into effect. The text of the above 

 article is as foliov/s : 



Art. 46. Foreign patent medicines must 

 he registered with the Bureau of Health 

 by agents or importers, and their circula- 

 tion in the country shall be permitted 

 only upon fulfillment of the following con- 

 ditions : (a) The labels must name the 

 constituents to which the patented arti- 

 cle owes its medicinal property ; (h) the 

 labels must also state the name of the 



manufacturing druggist or company in 

 the country of origin. 



Art. 47. No patent medicine shall be 

 put on sale before its registration with 

 the Bureau of Health. A certificate of 

 registrarion will oe issued by the said 

 bureau within three days from date of 

 application. 



By Presidential decree the original 

 regulations Avere suspended until Septem- 

 ber 10, 191.5, a date subsequently altered 

 to September 10, 1917, and by a later de- 

 cree their enforcement was deferred for a 

 further period of two years. In the pre- 

 amble to the present resolution, it is 

 stated that many preparations are now 

 manufactured in foreign countries ex- 

 clusively for the Cuban market, and ac- 

 cordingly a provision has been added to 

 article 46 requiring the presentation of a 

 certificate from the Cuban consul in the 

 country of origin to the effect that the 

 preparation is freely sold in that country. 

 There is also a provision for the com- 

 pilation of a new register of pharma- 

 ceutical preparations sold in Cuba and a 

 period of four months is allowed for the 

 registration of all preparations. 



CONGRESO DE JUVENTUD HISPANO 

 AMERICANO 

 A delegation has been appointed to at- 

 tend the Congreso de .Juventud Hispano 

 Americano (Congress of Spanish- Ameri- 

 can Youth) which is to take place -short- 

 ly in Madrid. The delegation is made 

 up of students of law, medicine, letters, 

 and sciences, and is headed by Dr. Guil- 

 lermo Alonzo Pujol. 



