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Mexico: Junta de Sanidad


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 WMS/Amer.5 and 69

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Mexico: Junta de Sanidad

Date(s): 1813

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 volumes

Name of creator(s): Junta de Sanidad | Mexico City | Mexico

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Junta de Sanidad, composed of 5 members of the Ayuntamiento or city council, was in charge of health issues during the 1813 fever epidemics in the city of Mexico. The fevers affecting the city at this time were probably mainly typhus.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

The collection comprises two sets of directives issued by the Mexico City Junta de Sanidad during the 1813 fever epidemics.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Spanish.

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Physical characteristics:

manuscript, bound.

Finding aids:

Described in: Robin Price, An Annotated Catalogue of Medical Americana in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1983). Detailed catalogue available at http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

The items in this collection formed part of the Guerra Collection.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased 1962.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: description compiled by Christopher Hilton based upon those in the Library's published finding aid by Robin Price.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: December 2000.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Disease control | Health policy | Health
Epidemiology | Health policy | Health
Municipal government | Local government | Public administration | Government
Typhoid | Diseases | Pathology

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
Mexico City | Mexico | North America