Badajoz : 1860-1900

A workingman's paradise? Reflections on urban mortality in colonial Australia 1860-1900.

Today, historical research on health and society in nineteenth-century Australia, as elsewhere, is focused on three main areas: the effects ofparticular epidemic diseases on the social fabric, the politics of public health, and the relationship between living standards, sanitary reform, and mortality. By far the greatest attention has been paid to the first, notably by historical epidemiologist...

Bank Stock Ownership and Bank Control: The Evidence from Wisconsin, 1860-1900

This paper reports on the initial stages of an ongoing study of 19th century Wisconsin bank sources and uses of funds. Data on 19th century Wisconsin state, private, and national bank shareholders, and owners from 1860 through 1900 are used to explore the following questions: (1) Where did the equity capital invested in Wisconsin banks originate and how did this and other shareholder characteri...

Sugarcane and Lepers: Health Policy and the Colonization of Hawaii (1860-1900)

Beasts, murrains, and the British Raj: reassessing colonial medicine in India from the veterinary perspective, 1860-1900.

Assessments of colonial medicine in India have, until now, focused almost exclusively on questions related to human health. This article shifts attention to the subject of animal health and reexamines existing hypotheses about colonial medicine in India from this new perspective. It looks at the linkages between veterinary medicine and the military and fiscal policies of the colonial state, arg...

[Dietary intake of secondary education students in Badajoz].

OBJECTIVES To quantify dietary intake of secondary education students in Badajoz, Spain, evaluating food frequency use in teenagers of both sexes. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study sample consisted of 1197 secondary education students (49.9% male and 50.1% female). After giving informed consent, they completed a self-administered food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) including 51 food items divided...