cordón sanitario - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 07:52:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg cordón sanitario - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Map of the cordon sanitaire in Orihuela for the plague of 1676 https://historylab.es/map-of-the-cordon-sanitaire-in-orihuela-for-the-plague-of-1676/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=map-of-the-cordon-sanitaire-in-orihuela-for-the-plague-of-1676 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:18 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/mapa-del-cordon-sanitario-en-orihuela-para-la-peste-de-1676/ Map showing the cordon sanitaire between Orihuela and Alicante to prevent these cities from becoming infected by the plague at the end of the 17th century

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]]> The plague was one of the diseases that most decimated the Spanish population. The XVII century was the worst hit in demographic terms in Orihuela, Alicante: with the plague of 1647-1652 the population was reduced from 12,200 inhabitants to around 7,000. Against this background, the new outbreak recorded in 1676 in the surrounding towns was met with greater sanitary prevention. The city of Orihuela was isolated to avoid contagion and the accumulation of grain and foodstuffs was encouraged in order to deal with the possible epidemic. The danger for this city was in the market gardens, as many farmers crossed the municipal boundaries in the direction of Murcia or Elche to illegally supply produce. Faced with the danger of them becoming infected and returning with the disease, the Board of Health ordered quarantines to be imposed on those people who had been in areas at risk. Finally, a more effective cordon sanitaire was imposed, with 4 lines, linking Orihuela with Alicante: the first 2 lines were intended to isolate the outbreaks in Murcia and Cartagena, passing through the Segura River, the third line isolated the municipality of Elche, while the fourth was aimed at cutting off the outbreaks coming from La Mancha. Between the 19 leagues of the cordon sanitaire, 56 surveillance posts were set up with more than 100 operatives and men on horseback, who were permanently patrolling the containment lines.

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]]> Choleric Mortality in Andalusia, 1833-35 https://historylab.es/choleric-mortality-in-andalusia-1833-35/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=choleric-mortality-in-andalusia-1833-35 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:41 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/mortalidad-colerica-en-andalucia-1833-35/ Evolution of choleric mortality in different regions of Andalusia from 1833 to 1835

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]]> The first Asian cholera pandemic entered the Iberian Peninsula in 1833 via Portugal. In Andalusia, cholera persisted for 16 months, between August 1833 and January 1835. The traditional account of the epidemic, which limited the presence of cholera to western Andalusia in 1833, blamed the exacerbation in the summer of 1834 on the march of an army corps from Portugal. The epidemic spread during the autumn of 1833 from the western provinces to the eastern provinces by means of maritime traffic. The prolonged presence of the disease occurred in the midst of a complicated political situation: the reform of the absolutist regime after the death of Ferdinand VII and the beginning of the first Carlist war. In Andalusia, the first barriers – sea and land – were applied between 18 and 24 August 1831 in response to the news that Gibraltar was suffering from a suspicious disease, leading to the closure of the border with the Portuguese country in February 1833. The upsurge of the pandemic led to the second “cordon sanitaire” formed by troops, until it was lifted in August. Preventive policy, however, moved away from quarantines and cordons to focus on urban sanitation measures and aid for the sick. The majority of the series of sick and dead cases, with modifications, meet the typical conditions of Holomantic outbreaks: a rapid rise in the number of cases, a more prolonged maintenance of an uneven pattern, and a somewhat slower decline. The persistence of the disease in parts of eastern Andalusia during the winter and spring of 1834 gave the presentation of this choleric epidemic its peculiar west-east-west development. In western points, such as Cadiz and Seville, the epidemic occurred on two occasions, but sufficiently separated in time and with no evidence of this insidious interregnum.

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