Historia, Ciencias, Saude - Manguinhos
Volume 26, Issue 1, 2019, Pages 15-32

Keeping our immigrants healthy: Hygienist doctrine in the hospedaria de imigrantes da ilha das flores [Como manter saudáveis nossos imigrantes: preceitos higienistas na constituição da Hospedaria de Imigrantes da Ilha das Flores] (Article) (Open Access)

Reznik L.* , Costa J.C.O.
  • a Departamento de Ciências Humanas, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Uerj), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
  • b Centro de Memória da Imigração da Ilha das Flores/Uerj, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Abstract

The Hospedaria de Imigrantes (Immigrant Lodgings) da Ilha das Flores was established in 1883 in accordance with the hygienist thinking of the time. Immigrants were isolated on the east coast of Guanabara Bay because of the epidemics of yellow fever which returned to the Imperial capital every summer since 1849-1850. Hygienists attributed the disease to the precarious health conditions in the city of Rio de Janeiro, which enabled germs to multiply and infect the atmosphere. As physicians reinterpreted the disease in light of Pasteurian theory, new procedures were adopted to receive immigrants, changing the structure and function of the facility on Ilha das Flores. © 2019, Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz. All rights reserved.

Author Keywords

Immigration Hygienism Hospedaria da ilha das flores

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85064195510&doi=10.1590%2fs0104-59702019000100002&partnerID=40&md5=463497aecb2ce7b254958b23d5c32834
DOI: 10.1590/s0104-59702019000100002
ISSN: 01045970
Original Language: English; Portuguese