Keywords
public sanitation
hygiene
association
code
disease
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Abstract
The present article analyze the role executed by the Public Improvement Association and the Police Code of 1931, of being the main promoters of healthiness and hygiene in Barranquilla (Colombia) in the mid of the xx Century. This works shows how by means of regulations and Institutions it was possible to taught the citizens of Barranquilla to follow an hygiene and healthiness habit, in order to build a civilized and modern model city, following the mentality of that period of time.The journal Memoria y Sociedad is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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