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The establishment and activities developed by the Social Hygiene Dispensary in Viana do Castelo, a village in northern Portugal, between 1934 and the 1960s are analyzed. Dispensaries had an essentially prophylatic function to hinder the dissemination of illnesses that would easily become epidemics. The dispensary of Viana do Castelo combated venereal diseases, especially syphilis, and rabies. Current paper details these two fields of intervention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I will present a draft of the labour relations in 1900 Portugal, discussing primarily the available sources and giving a main frame of the country situation and secondly presenting a detailed proposal about the labour relations in this period, using the sources discussed and the terminology of the project "Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations 1500- 2000" and "Labour Relations in Portugal and the Lusophone World 1800-2000: continuity and change". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]