Aviation and Public Health

THE Third International Congress of Sanitary Aviation will be held at Brussels on June 11-17 at the time of the Universal International Exhibition. The subjects for discussion at the Congress, which has been organised by the Aero-Club of Belgium, of which Dr. Charles Sillevaerts is president, are as follows: utilisation of private and commercial aeroplanes for sanitary objects; collaboration of public services and private organisations for the utilisation of sanitary aviation in peace time; organisation and working of first aid in public aerial transport; and help afforded by aviation in times of calamity. Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Odessa, Kharkov, Minsk, Baku, Sverdlovsk, Irkutsk and Khabarovsk have recently been provided with aeroplanes intended to convey first aid to patients in out of the way districts which have no doctors or have been rendered inaccessible by floods, storms and the like. The aeroplanes can be summoned by wireless, telegraph or telephone.