Abstract

PIRES, Sandra Cunha. Junta de Inspecção de Providências Contra a Peste: contributions to the study of Health administration in portuguese judicial districts in early 19^th century. Cadernos do Arquivo Municipal [online]. 2020, vol.ser2, n.14, pp.137-161. ISSN 2183-3176.

Public health issues in the kingdoms of Portugal and the Algarve were under jurisdiction of Lisbon's House Senate, namely, through the Health Department whose councilor held the position of Chief Health Ombudsman of Court and Kingdom. The fundamental sources upon which this paper is based, belonging to the Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa (Lisbon Municipal Archives), enable us to establish that superintendence since the 16th to the early 19th centuries, ascertaining that the local power (Lisbon's) acted as a centralizing institution on matters related to public health. The reforms undertaken, in 1804, in benefit of the public health, although involving several central power bodies, did not represent any loss of responsibility of Lisbon's House Senate, as it is possible to confirm through the Quesitos a que he necessario responder cada hum dos Corregedores de Comarcas deste Reino, e do Reino do Algarve.

Keywords : Junta de Inspecção de Providências Contra a Peste; Lisbon's House Senate; Provimento da Saúde; Comarcas do Reino; Public Health.

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