Abstract

GARCIA-CUBILLANA DE LA CRUZ, J.M.. Health and disease in the Real Hospital de la Armada of the Arsenal de la Carraca (1756-1821). Sanid. Mil. [online]. 2015, vol.71, n.3, pp.158-178. ISSN 1887-8571.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S1887-85712015000300003.

In the first quarter of the 18th century the Arsenal de la Carraca was created and soon after considered the most important shipyard of the Spanish Navy. The massive arrival of military and civilian employees as a consequence of the job offered, brought about a health care problem. This trouble was resolved by an improvised wooden sickbay and other several provisional hospitals placed in La Isla de León. Finally, the Real Hospital del Arsenal de la Carraca was established in 1756. It played a crucial role in the 1800 Yellow Fever Epidemic and in the first two years of the War of Independence until August 1810, when it was forced to evict considering the risk of a bombardment by French batteries settled in Puerto Real; then it was retrained as a "blood hospital". Nevertheless, the hospital was established as it was originally because of the second serious 1819 Yellow Fever Epidemic. As a result of that reorganization in the Bahia de Cádiz, the hospital was closed down by Spanish Navy in 1821, as it is demonstrated by its supporting document founded in the Archivo General de Marina "Álvaro de Bazán". This work expounds the sanitary conditions and human mishaps of this Real Hospital over 65 key years in the Spanish history.

Keywords : Royal Hospital; Arsenal Carraca; Yellow Fever Epidemic.

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