The spanish flu harvest among the poor workers and the miserable of Bahia (1918-1919)

Abstract

This text discusses the Spanish flu epidemic in Salvador, capital of Bahia, Brazil. The pandemic that swept the world between 1918 and 1919 spread in the city from September 1918. This article aims to analyze the spread of the disease in different districts of the city and whether the effects of the economic crisis and the material conditions of existence of the population interfered in the illness and death of the soteropolitanos, especially of the poor workers and of the miserable. This reflection is based on primary sources such as newspapers, medical articles published in specialized journals, reports by health inspectors, a death record book, among others.

Keywords

• epidemic
• spanish flu
• workers
• poor
• bahia