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PERAFAN CABRERA, Aceneth. THE PRACTICAL HYGIENISTS IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT OF THE CITY OF CALI, DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY. Anu.hist.reg.front. [online]. 2013, vol.18, n.1, pp.33-62. ISSN 0122-2066.

This study has as intention show from a historical environmental perspective, aspects related to the practical hygienists typical of the city of Cali during the first half of the 20th century. Are outlined some of the central problems related to this city and to some bordering populations, in a historical moment in which they presented serious difficulties relating to the water supply, to the system of urban outlet and to the organization of the services of hygiene corresponding to the public cleanliness, the compilation of residues, and the situation of noxious industries. The narrow existing link between the speech hygienist and the idea of progress stimulated the execution of offers directed to the improvement of the potability of the water and the adoption of practices in which this resource turned into strategic element for the public, domestic and personal cleanliness. The construction of the aqueduct and the sewer represented a route of solution opposite to the own requirements of the panorama of the city of beginning of century, in which it was turning out to be priority to answer to the topic of the health, to the advance of the demographic, industrial and urban growth, and to the achievement of better living conditions for the population.

Palavras-chave : water; pollution; public services; health; disease.

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