Subsídios para compreensão da peste bubónica em Lourenço Marques 1907-1908

Abstract

This work investigates the social dynamics of bubonic plague in Loureço Marques. The aim is to show that diseases can also be a factor in changes within a society. Bubonic plague has long been seen as an evil or a punishment for certain societies, its trail of deaths serves as proof of this, however, as history has several nuances, we intend show how a disease with a dark history can be seen from a different way. The work focuses on the city of Lourenço Marques, an already segregated city, thus reviving the issue of racial segregation against blacks, Indians, Baneans and monhes, revealing that even as its immediacy brought consequences for these races that were considered inferior by the Portuguese. However, in addition to the acts and measures of segregation the colonial government's response to the bubonic plague revitalized the city of Lourenço Marques, bringing significant changes to the health sector and even within the city through the measures implemented by the colonial government. In this sense, diseases and especially illnessesIX emblematic as the bubonic plague has a wide social impact and has revealed characters in the story, always marking the rhythms of the civilizations and writing their own history parallel to that of their victims. THE natural tendency to understand and control morbid processes determined not only transformations in the cultural, mental and technical process but also caused equally, as epidemiological and demographic factors, changes deep in the social, political, economic and also health systems of city ​​of Lourenço Marques. (TRADUÇAO NOSSA)