A mortalidade infantil em Belterra durante os anos da Companhia Ford (1938- 1945)

Abstract

The work seeks to identify endemic diseases, such as malaria and tuberculosis, which were attributed to the Amazon region in the period from 1938 to 1945, in addition to analyzing infant mortality and intestinal diseases linked to lack of sanitation, focusing on the city of Santarém and the enterprise of the Ford Company in Belterra. The main question was to understand how the two places were connected to the national changes that were taking place within the scope of health policies and disease prevention during the “New State” period of Vargas and how infant mortality, mainly due to the lack of Sanitation, was present in both regions. The research was developed through the analysis of Excel spreadsheets produced from death certificates from the Cartório Sousa Alho, in the Santarém region between the years 1938 and 1945, provided by the Centro de Documentação Histórica do Baixo Amazonas, and using the bibliography produced by Rômulo Andrade, José Pereira, Gilberto Hochman, Maria Secreto and Adrea Besen.