Etnografía histórica de Mendavia X. Los artífices I

Abstract

The town council contracted the doctors, specified the conditions of employment and recorded the audiences they were involved in. Several epidemics of cholera, influenza and smallpox, how long they lasted and their effects on the population; the arrival of the first vaccinations and the curious way in which they were transported. Ordinances regarding public health; causes of death specified on death certificates; infant deaths, death during multiple childbirth, baptisms performed by the midwife. Burials in churches and cemeteries; new graveyards and the extension of the current one. Brotherhoods such as that of Vera Cruz and Ánimas del Purgatorio; wills and religious bequests, with the transcription of the will of Joan Quadrado in 1591, as well as a section dealing with...