Abstract

CHAPMAN QUEVEDO, Willian Alfredo  and  AGUDELO GONZALEZ, Ángela Lucía. Public improvement associations and the Police Code of 1931 in Barranquilla: regulatory organs and bodies of healthiness and hygiene in the city during the first half of the 20th Century. Mem. Soc. [online]. 2012, vol.16, n.33, pp.225-241. ISSN 0122-5197.

The present article analyze the role executed by the Public Improvement Association and the Police Code of 1931, of being the main promoters of healthiness and hygiene in Barranquilla (Colombia) in the mid of the XX Century. This works shows how by means of regulations and Institutions it was possible to taught the citizens of Barranquilla to follow an hygiene and healthiness habit, in order to build a civilized and modern model city, following the mentality of that period of time.

Keywords : public sanitation; hygiene; association; code; disease; Public health; history; legislation; hygiene; Barranquilla (Colombia); XX century.

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