The article introduces Ilha Grande, a district in the municipality of Angra dos Reis, and describes its role within the subsistence market economy and the memory of slavery as found in the Angra dos Reis Civil Records. According to the Almanaque Laemmert, this district had the largest number of slaves in the municipality as of the 1870s. Most owners had few slaves, and the majority of landholdi...

This paper provides an overview of solid waste management by local authorities in the Sucre municipality in Caracas, Venezuela. Sucre is currently faced with serious demographic, economic, social, urban, and administrative challenges in solid waste management. The municipality, called Petare, has one of the largest slums in Latin America. It is estimated that more than a million people live in ...

A study has been carried out aimed at reducing perinatal mortality in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro through a better distribution of health care facilities. The algorithmic aspects are detailed elsewhere and here the emphasis is on practical issues and difficulties encountered. A 3-level hierarchical model was developed. Both uncapacitated and capacitated versions are briefly described tog...

Administration Report of the Calcutta Municipality for 1875. Report on the Calcutta Medical Institutions for the year 1875. By J. Fullarton Beatson, M.D., Surgeon-General, Indian Medical Department. Before considering the sickness and mortality in Calcutta and its institutions in 1875, it will perhaps be well to glance back at the figures of the mortality in previous years, given in the Adminis...

in recent years there has been considerable debate about the positive outcomes of organizational justice ‘so that it is effective as a tool to achieve organizational virtuousness. because the rate of municipal facilities in leading economic, social and cultural role is responsible for the different areas and the other people as owners and beneficiaries of justice are mutually communication infr...