February 2021
In 1906, Doctor Emílio Ribas reorganized the Sanitation Service of São Paulo. A campaign to combat trachoma – an ophthalmic disease related to poverty with high incidence in rural areas – was implemented as part of the project.
In Prophylaxis and treatment of diseases in western São Paulo state: the Sanitation Service and trachoma in the early twentieth century, Soraya Lodola, PhD in Science and Technology Policy at Unicamp and Cristina Campos Profesor in the Graduate Program in Science and Technology Policy at the same university analyze this campaign, which provided care for the sick living on rural properties
First Trachoma campaign in São Paulo,1906. Source: Marçal, Renata at https://slideplayer.com.br/slide/1847462/
The article concludes that Ribas, by creating an organization that integrated the efforts of the sanitary districts and the Trachoma Commission medical teams, sought to form a complex apparatus to combat the diseases present in both urban areas and the countryside.
Read more about Trachoma and health campaigns in HCSM:
Lodola, Soraya and Campos, Cristina de. Prophylaxis and treatment of diseases in western São Paulo state: the Sanitation Service and trachoma in the early twentieth century. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos [online]. 2020, vol.27, n.4.
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Bernabeu-Mestre, Josep, Galiana-Sánchez, María Eugenia and Monerris, Angela Cremades. Environment and health with respect to a poverty-related disease: the epidemiology of trachoma in Spain, 1925-1941. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dec 2013, vol.20, no.4.
López, Raúl Necochea. The Anti-Cancer League and public outreach for cancer control in Peru. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Sept 2020, vol.27, suppl.1
Agostoni, Claudia. Del “armamento antituberculoso” al Sanatorio para Tuberculosos de Huipulco en la Ciudad de México, 1920-1940. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Abr 2019, vol.26, no.2, p.519-536. ISSN 0104-5970
Agostoni, Claudia. Control, contención y educación higiénica en las campañas de vacunación contra la viruela en México durante la década de 1940. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Jun 2015, vol.22, no.2
