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Fuentes, Revista de la Biblioteca y Archivo Histórico de la Asamblea Legislativa Plurinacional
Print version ISSN 1997-4485
Abstract
CALVO VERA, Alfredo. The public health in the bolivian coast. Rev. Fuent. Cong. [online]. 2014, vol.8, n.31, pp. 30-36. ISSN 1997-4485.
History of the medical service and the public health in the Bolivian Coast, from the exploration and study made by Irish general Francisco Burdet Or' Connor in the bays of Loa, Mejillones and Cobija, that the rating of Puerto La Mar, like main entrance for Bolivia. It studies the development of the public health, from the appointment of French doctor Dr. Andrés Layseca, in 1834, passing through the establishment of the Meeting of Health of the Port the Sea, by Decree of 1835, until the creation of the hospital of Antofagasta in 1872, established to fight the smallpox epidemics that whipped the Bolivian coasts.
Keywords : History of the public health; Coastal Bolivian in the Pacific; Hospital of Antofagasta.