Abstract:
Durante el siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX, las condiciones laborales de los trabajadores eran precarias, así como las
condiciones de vida, incluidas las viviendas, alimentación, el
agua y otras relacionadas con la salubridad. Esto hacía que
la morbimortalidad, especialmente la infantil, fuese ... Ver más
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the
working conditions of the workers were precarious, as were
the living conditions, including housing, food, water and
others items or matters related to health. This made morbidity and mortality, especially in children, very important and
health structures could not respond to the needs for greater
health of citizens. An industrialist and patron who lived and
worked in Alcoi, mainly, wrote that among others, one of the
benefactors of his legacy was the people of Alcoi, but mainly
the working class, the poor people. In that sense, he ordered
the construction of a Hospital, Oliver’s civil hospital (in honor
of his last name), aimed at providing free health support especially to workers. An avant-garde hospital for that time. After
the years the building suffered the consequent degradation of
the passing of the years and both the town hall and the heirs,
transferred it to the Generalitat, which at the same time made
a transfer of use and improvement to a private company to
build a home of the senior citizens, mostly private, that is, for
profit. The question we still need to know is if that really was
what Mr. Agustin would have wanted for his legacy
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