SPECIAL NOTE.

Mr. John Barrett, the Director General of the Pan American Union, an institution devoted to the development of comity and commerce among the American nations, and which acts incidentally as the office of the International Sanitary Bureau, presents his compliments to the readers of this volume, and, in expressing the hope that they will enjoy a perusal of its contents, desires to state that if they care for special information concerning the Latin-American Republics they can obtain it by addressing him at the Pan American Union offices, Washington, D. C.

INTERNATIONAL SANITARY CONFERENCE

OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLICS

HELD IN SAN JOSÉ, COSTA RICA

DECEMBER 25, 1909, TO

JANUARY 3, 1910

PUBLISHED AND DISTRIBUTED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE
PAN AMERICAN UNION, JOHN BARRETT, DIRECTOR-

GENERAL, WASHINGTON, D. C.

1910