2013-09-302013-09-302006COSTA, Magda Nazaré Pereira da. Caridade e saúde pública em tempo de epidemias. Belém 1850-1890. 2006. 108 f. Dissertação (Mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Pará, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Belém, 2006. Programa de Pós-Graduação em História.https://repositorio.ufpa.br/handle/2011/4307Forced to face a serious epidemic crisis that started nearly throughout the second half of the XIX century, the inhabitants of Belém witness, from that moment on, an intense social mobilization that sought to preserve public health in the city. Public health had long ceased being object of interest to the “governo provincial” and now felt the rage of yellow fever, cholera and chickenpox which were erratically making victims around town. Based on these factos this paper seeks to analize some ways used to contain the spread of cases of these cliseases in the capital of the “Província do Pará”, by stressing the sanitary strategies put fort by the people connected to medical science. Such strategies, in most cases carried out by public administration, did not yield worthwhile results; but they interfered with and significatly modified the ways of providing assistance to the most needy patients who were in general helped in the name of charity at the “Santa Casa de Misericórdia” Hospital. The lack of knowledge concerning the etiology of those diseases brought up an even bitterer ideology conflict among medical doctors who disagreed about the possible sources of the epidemic and about the kind of therapeutic methods to be provided to patients at the same time that the risk of contamination also increased “compassion” and “charity” of al who had been direct or indirectly threatened by those diseases.porAcesso AbertoHistória socialHistória - Séc. XIXEpidemiaSaúde públicaBelém - PAPará - EstadoAmazônia brasileiraDissertaçãoCNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA::HISTORIA DO BRASIL::HISTORIA REGIONAL DO BRASIL