MARITIME HEALTH IN CADIZ (SPAIN) IN 1833: DECISIONS OF THE “MUNICIPAL MEETING OF HEALTH” IN FRONT OF THE THREAT OF INVASION OF CHOLERA

Abstract

This publication is part of a historical research work, and allows us to be close to reality considering that in our environment
epidemic of diseases has been occurred; nowadays, classified like people in quarantine and/or of international compulsory
declaration.
We could have studied any of the epidemics of the yellow fever, which attacked the city of Cadiz through XVIII and the beginning
of XIX Century, but we have considered more opportune concentrate ourselves in specific aspects of the first epidemic of
disease cholera which is suffered in Cadiz nineteenth Century- in1833-because is a disease geographically closer to us, if we talk
about endemic areas. In the forum in which is presented this publication, and the academic professional profile of the authors; we
study in this work principally the preventative measures that, in the field of Maritime Health, which were motivated by The
Municipal Meeting of Health of Cadiz (Spain) in front of the big danger of cholera invasion In1833. Unfortunately at the end of
September of the same year the Asian epidemic of desease cholera was a sad reality in Cadiz city