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Temperamentvm
On-line version ISSN 1699-6011
Abstract
FERREIRO-ARDIONS, Manuel. Hospital response in Vitoria (Spain) to the Atlantic plague at the end of the 16th century. Temperamentvm [online]. 2021, vol.17, e13375. Epub Jan 27, 2023. ISSN 1699-6011.
Objective:
to determine the role of the hospitals in Vitoria (Álava, Spain) during the Atlantic plague epidemic (1598-1601).
Methods:
interpretative study of primary historical documentary sources (municipal minute books and preserved documentation from three of the five historical hospitals of Vitoria).
Results:
6 direct and several indirect reports link only one of Vitoria's hospitals, the Santiago, with the care of the plague victims during the epidemic. The main activity was carried out in a temporary hospital set up outside the city walls until it was saturated when the city inside the walls was invaded -one year after the beginning of the epidemic-, starting the assistance in the Santiago hospital since it could not avoid the infection among its patients.
Conclusions:
at least one hospital in Vitoria, the Santiago hospital, actively assisted the plague victims, but only when the strategy based on lazarettos outside the city walls failed.
Keywords : Hospital; Plague; Vitoria; 16th century.