created. The 1940 General Census was held, which yielded a population of 6,207,966. Some 577,000 inhabitants were concentrated in Lima. The organic Law on Public Education was given accompanied by an aggressive national literacy plan, in the face of the large number of illiterate people that the census unveiled (1943). It gave access to technical education, with the best implementation and equipment of art schools and crafts. The Worker's Hospital (present-day Guillermo Almenara Hospital) was inaugurated. The Worker's Hospital of Huacho (present-day Gustavo Lanatta Luján Hospital) was inaugurated. The Maternity Hospital of Lima was inaugurated. Mass vaccination campaigns began. The fourth Working Quarter was built on the Rimac. The Yavarí District was created in the Mariscal Ramón Castilla Province in the Department of Loreto The boost to tourism continued. Popular canteens were created, which subsisted efficiently for several decades. In this period there were two misfortunes of magnitude: the Lima and Callao Earthquake of May 24, 1940,and the fire of the National Library of Peru that occurred on May 11, 1943. The reconstruction of the latter was commissioned by the historian Jorge Basadre. Called the 1945 general election, Prado sponsored the candidacy of General Eloy Ureta,the victor in the war against Ecuador in 1941. But the most popular candidacy was that of the jurist José Luis Bustamante y Rivero,representing a front or alliance of parties including the APRA: the National Democratic Front,which proved triumphant. After his tenure, Prado traveled and settled in Paris where he owned a residence on the elegant Avenida Foch. In Lima, he was the owner of the Edificio Rímac from 1939 to 1945. His government's position on the Jewish Holocaust Faced with the systematic extermination of millions of Jews in Europe, Manuel Prado Ugarteche, through his Chancellor Dr. Alfredo Solf de Muro, implemented a strict policy of denying visas to Jews who asked for entry to Peru, even though they desperately sought to escape certain death. Very notorious is the case of "the negative response of the Prado government to the request of the "WorldJewishCongress" so that Peru, like many countries in the world, would agree to admit Jewish children orphaned by war that were to be maintained and educated on 20 Jews residing in Peru. The Peruvian government, through Chancellor Dr. Solf and Muro, rejected in 1944 the request to admit 200 Jewish children aged 4 to 10 who later were murdered at Auschwitz. Another