also insured against all loss, risk, and liability for damages.” By resolution of the Executive Power, a project relative to the defense against syphilis, formulated by the President of the National Council of Hygiene, was approved, “according to which the Prophylactic Institute of Syphilis is created and the installation of several dispensaries is established where those who attend them are treated free of charge and medicines are provided. With the installation of these dispensaries, which are already fully operational, the task of defending against that disease, a social evil that tends to become more widespread every day, making its destructive action felt in the individual and their offspring.” The premises of the Military Hospital was also one of improvements, among which included “the inauguration of a pavilion destined to shelter patients subjected to Military Justice.” According to a presidential message from 1918, “The project of the Director of Public Assistance has begun to be executed, by which the number of polyclinics is increased, services that provide so much good to the needy classes, and that have the advantage of accustoming families to frequenting the doctor, distancing them of the healer, and allowing at the same time that diseases can be attacked in their first signs, giving notions of hygiene and general prophylaxis that, transmitted to the home, prevented the development of many diseases.” Also, “In accordance with the aforementioned project, a surgical polyclinic was created at the Máciel Hospital, a medical-surgical polyclinic at each of the Gota de Leche Clinics, a medical polyclinic and another surgical polyclinic at the Luis Piñeyro del Campo Asylum, Hospital Fermín Ferreira and Vilardebo Hospital. For the same project, the city is divided into four large radios, and the sick must go to the service that corresponds to them according to their homes. In addition, a medical-surgical polyclinic for children was created at the Hospital del Salto.” In addition, “the function of a Convalescent Colony has been studied in which, in accordance with the laws that govern the institution, men, women and children over 7 years of age will be assisted from Public Assistance establishments.” For those in Primary Public Instruction, a hundred assistantships authorized by law of October 1917, “which will allow instructing four or five a thousand more children, at least.” According to a presidential message from 1918, the National Inspection of Livestock and Agriculture “through the agronomic inspection services, chemical and seed