Abstract
The Hospedaria de Imigrantes (Immigrant Lodgings) da Ilha das Flores was established in 1883 in accordance with the hygienist thinking of the time. Immigrants were isolated on the east coast of Guanabara Bay because of the epidemics of yellow fever which returned to the Imperial capital every summer since 1849-1850. Hygienists attributed the disease to the precarious health conditions in the city of Rio de Janeiro, which enabled germs to multiply and infect the atmosphere. As physicians reinterpreted the disease in light of Pasteurian theory, new procedures were adopted to receive immigrants, changing the structure and function of the facility on Ilha das Flores.
Highlights
The government began to directly intervene in order to receive and organize all of these people, creating territorial and administrative mechanisms to register, control, and in some cases redirect newly-arrived migrants. This led to large structures for receiving immigrants such as Ellis Island (1892) in the United States, Hotel de Inmigrantes de La Rotonda (1882) in Argentina, the Hospedaria de Imigrantes (Immigrant Lodging) da Ilha das Flores (1883), and the Hospedaria do Brás (Brás Hostel) (1887), both in Brazil
It is no coincidence that during that same year, the Brazilian government assumed responsibility for providing a suitable location to receive immigrants who arrived in the city of Rio de Janeiro and were headed to the official colonies created by the Empire
Minister of Agriculture, Commerce, and Public Works Manoel Pinto de Souza Dantas leased a set of buildings on Morro da Saúde from Dr José Rodrigues Ferreira, and this became the site of the Hospedaria de Imigrantes do Morro da Saúde (Dantas, 1867, p.69-70)
Summary
Researcher, Centro de Memória da Imigração da Ilha das Flores/Uerj. REZNIK, Luís; COSTA, Juliana Carolina Oliveira. The government began to directly intervene in order to receive and organize all of these people, creating territorial and administrative mechanisms to register, control, and in some cases redirect newly-arrived migrants This led to large structures for receiving immigrants such as Ellis Island (1892) in the United States, Hotel de Inmigrantes de La Rotonda (1882) in Argentina, the Hospedaria de Imigrantes (Immigrant Lodging) da Ilha das Flores (1883), and the Hospedaria do Brás (Brás Hostel) (1887), both in Brazil. It is no coincidence that during that same year, the Brazilian government assumed responsibility for providing a suitable location to receive immigrants who arrived in the city of Rio de Janeiro and were headed to the official colonies created by the Empire To accomplish this task, Minister of Agriculture, Commerce, and Public Works Manoel Pinto de Souza Dantas leased a set of buildings on Morro da Saúde from Dr José Rodrigues Ferreira, and this became the site of the Hospedaria de Imigrantes do Morro da Saúde (Dantas, 1867, p.69-70). In the summer of 1876 when a severe epidemic of yellow fever swept through the city of Rio de Janeiro, minister of Agriculture, Commerce and Public Works Thomaz José Coelho de Almeida (1877, p.403) ordered that the immigrants housed at the Hospedaria do Morro da Saúde, along with all the others arriving in the city, should be relocated to “points well respected for their healthful condition.”
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