Children’s illness and mortality in Puebla’s State Orphanage, 1894-1951
Abstract
In this article we propose to address the illness and child mortality within healthcare institutions in the State of Puebla, during the first half of the 20th century. From the critical analysis of primary sources, the characteristics of the sheltered children are described, just as the random ways their entrance and their health conditions and the diseases that caused their death. Our main objective is to review the progress of these institutions to contribute to the history of childhood in the regions of Mexico.
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