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- Title
Condiciones climáticas y epidemia de fiebre amarilla en Buenos Aires, 1871.
- Authors
Guiastrennec, Lucas
- Abstract
This article tries to include the climatic factor to the set of variables that can explain the spread of the yellow fever epidemic of 1871 in Buenos Aires. To do this, it reconstructs the climatic conditions of the period and analyzes the reading that the medical community made on the climate-society-disease relationship. It is concluded that the climatic conditions of 1871 were elementary for the spread of the disease. The high thermal level, together with the percentage of humidity and the precipitations allowed the development of the vector mosquito. The sudden drop in temperature, together with the human habit of heating the house and the particularity of the Aedes Aegypti at home, allowed the disease to circulate despite the low temperatures. On the other hand, the consideration of climatic conditions as the etiology of the epidemic by medical hygienists, together with the large number of immigrant victims, revived both discussions about the problem of acclimatization of foreigners, as well as concerns about the future. of the "national race". The originality of the work lies in the fact that the climatic conditions, and the perceptions around it, as an object of study, have been little explored in the historiographical productions that dealt with the 1871 epidemic. Climatic statistics for the decade 1861-1871 were elaborated, in order to compare and identify the particularity of the atmospheric variability of the plague year. At the same time, meeting and disagreement points were established in various qualitative sources (medical theses, magazines, newspapers, brochures and stories from European travelers), with respect to the perception that their contemporaries had about the climatic influence.
- Subjects
BUENOS Aires (Argentina); YELLOW Fever Epidemic, 1878; CLIMATE change; HYGIENISTS; YELLOW fever; PUBLIC health personnel; ACCLIMATIZATION
- Publication
Revista de Historia de América, 2024, Issue 167, p111
- ISSN
0034-8325
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.35424/rha.167.2024.4536