Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-28
NJ MERCURO, Santiago.-There
has just been completed in Te-
muco, the chief city of Cautin
province, the first modern hos

- mas just Deen competed In Ie-
nuco, the chief city of Cautin
IL province, the first modern hos
pital that exists in Chile. We
have long had the idea Of hospitals, In
herited from Spain-vast, solid struc-
lures, built for eternity, and without
any consideration of convenience or
sanitation. The old hospitals were
built with the idea of holding as many
people as possible. Matters of ventila-
ton, comfort and lighting were Sec
ondary.
In the new Temuco Hospital each
patient has a large window admitting
sun and air. The hospital is built in
the form of eight almost detached
wings or els, so that all sides of every
department are free to light and air.
Offices, operation room, wards for men
and women, nurses quarters and pri-
vate rooms for pay patients are all In
separate buildings. We hope that a
program of erecting similar hospitals
throughout the republic will gather i'm
petuS from the appreciation of this
beautiful and commodious structure.
X X X 4
Germany Aids
Nationals in Russia.
Cologne GaZette.-The German Am
bassador to Russia has been authorized
coloniStS from Siberia, Ukraine and the
Caucasus districts who desire to leave
their farms and emigrate to Canada.
Soviet measures to prevent these exc
buses have been rigidly enforced, the
effort now being to prevent these Ger
man peasants leaving their farms or
homes preliminary to departure from
the country, but fund has been COL
lected in Germany to provide for those
until Spring who secured passports at
an earlier date, in consideration OF the
forfeiture of whatever funds or prop
erty they had in Russia.
y + X
Mexico Moves
To Restrict Narcotics.
FL Universal Mexico City.-By order
Of the department of public health all
persons hereafter presenting prescrip-
tons for narcotics to the various drug
stores will have the prescriptions re-
tanned by the drug store. When neces-
sary, copies of the prescriptions will be
given the patients, but these copies will
not be valid for any reflllS. The apoth-
ecaries will also have to keep a register
ing the name OF the person presenting
the order. It is hoped in this way to
keep a check on the dispensation Of
narcotics and reduce any tendency TO-
ward the dope habit.
\
Bus Takes Place
OF Street Car System.
La Nacion, Buenos Aires.-The city
council Of La Plata, capital Of the State
Of BuenoS Aires, as a preliminary to
doing away with the street car system
and substituting buses, has acquired
the right Of way, roadbed and terminals
of the old Ferrocarril de Las Clemin-
tinas, and win establish service for both
passengers and freight between La
Plata and Abasto. This service will be
inaugurated with three coaches, and an
outlay Of 10000 pesos has been appro-
priated for all preliminary expense and
equipment. The lines will be extended
through the city to other points in the
province as approval and use Of the new
service is manifested.
4 y 4
London Views
| Home Life in America.
Daily Herald, London.-very many
American families have refrigerators,
and even elaborate radio sets, In their
generally paid for on the installment
system. They frequently buy motor
cars in the same way. As for the re-
frigerators, the need for them Is I'M
posed by the exigencieS Of the climate,
which can be very hot In Summer
This suggests another intolerable fea-
ture Of American life. At Washington,
for instance, which is In about the lati-
tude of Madrid, in the month Of Octo-
Der the houses, hotels and shops are all
raised to very high temperatures by the
system Of central steam heating preva-
lent throughout the North American
continent, particularly throughout the