Valparaíso y su Salud: Algunas Notas para el Estudio de la Gestión Hospitalaria (1906 – 1918)

Abstract

This article analyzez and relates the process of hospital management in the port city of Valparaiso, between the years 1906 and 1918, where important urban change processes took place, such as the beginning of a slow process of decay and subsequent stagnation. This had repercussions on its inhabitants and particularly on its sanitary conditions. The problems of hygiene and diseases are described and how the different actors that were involved sought to generate measures to provide a quality of life and healthiness so much sought after in this city.