The dog as a health problem: Hygiene and urban government in 19th-century Puerto Rico
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https://doi.org/10.61497/wymbag53Keywords:
rabio, perro, higiene, gobierno urbano, policía sanitaria, rage, dog, hygiene, urban government, sanitary policeAbstract
This article analyzes the process in which was ordering urban life in Puerto Rico since the City Ordinances or Disorderly Conduct and its public health ideas. Principally focusing in one of the problems not resolved in the late XIX century by the urban governments: stray dogs’ control and rage propagation. This article presents the processes in which the dog became part of the urban life and how its presence was regulated and how a problem for the population health became. The failure in the management of this contagious disease was used to show the sanitary police and major’s governments limitations. It’s true that the urban regulations were copied from other European cities at the end of the XVIII century. In Puerto Rico, these ideas were not used at the same time.
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