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Dirt, Disease and Death: Control, Resistance and Change in the Post-Emancipation Caribbean (2012)

Pemberton, Rita (Author)

História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Volume: 19, suppl. 1
Issue: suppl. 1
Pages: 47-58

DOI: 10.1590/S0104-59702012000500004

Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: Article in a supplementary issue, “Health and Slavery”
Language: Portuguese

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Great Britain, colonies Epidemics Public health Health care Cholera Public policy 19th century Caribbean

This study examines how health facilities and services were used as an agency of worker control in the British Caribbean between 1838 and 1860. It argues that planter health strategies were based on flawed assumptions. The resultant policy of deprivation of access to medical services by the labouring population backfired within 16 years of freedom when a cholera epidemic rocked the region. It exposed the poor living conditions of the free villages and generated fear and panic among the local elite who were forced to make policy changes regarding health and sanitation. As a result the first steps towards the establishment of public health services in the British Caribbean were stimulated.

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