Mexico: Junta de Sanidad
- Mexico City, Junta de Sanidad
- Date:
- 1813
- Reference:
- WMS/Amer.5 & 69
- Archives and manuscripts
Collection contents
About this work
Description
The collection comprises two sets of directives issued by the Mexico City Junta de Sanidad during the 1813 fever epidemics.
Publication/Creation
1813
Physical description
2 volumes Manuscript, bound.
Contributors
Acquisition note
Purchased 1962.
Biographical note
The Junta de Sanidad, composed of 5 members of the Ayuntamiento or city council, was in charge of health issues during the 1813 fever epidemics in the city of Mexico. The fevers affecting the city at this time were probably mainly typhus.
Finding aids
Described in: Robin Price, An Annotated Catalogue of Medical Americana in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1983).
Ownership note
The items in this collection formed part of the Guerra Collection.