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Este estudo assenta de modo exclusivo na importante fonte documental que são as Memórias Paroquiais que resultaram do inquérito ordenado em 1758 pelo Marquês de Pombal. Procedeu-se ao levantamento e transcrição paleográfica de todos os registos referentes a hospitais, Misericórdias e outros estabelecimentos assistenciais, contidos nos depoimentos respeitantes às 4073 Freguesias do país, sendo encontrados os pretendidos registos em 398 Freguesias, com indicação de localização de hospitais e/ou Misericórdias e/ou Albergarias ou outros estabelecimentos de assistência. Na maior parte dos casos os mesmos possuem informações adicionais, que se revelaram do maior interesse para este estudo, não só em termos panorâmicos, mas proporcionando estudos parcelares em âmbitos diversos da mesma temática.

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Until the end of the 19th century the Portuguese villages of Coruche and Erra had two hospitals, which were managed by the local Misericórdias. The hospital of Coruche was the main healthcare facility and the only one that remained after 1883, when the failing brotherhood of Erra was assimilated into the Misericórdia of Coruche, and its hospital became extinct.. In this paper we describe the services provided by the hospitals during the 19th century and first decade of the 20th century. We analyzed the share of expenditure of the hospital in the budget of the brotherhood of Coruche, its medical staff, including their technical capabilities. Furthermore, the users of the hospitals are quantified and described. The fragility of the Hospital of Erra is also proved, as well as of the Misericórida of the same village, reflected in the weak assistance provided and on the low number of patients that it could receive.

Este artigo tem por objeto de estudo uma instituição que teve, e continua a ter, um papel de suma importância na sociedade, designadamente no que respeita à prestação de cuidados de saúde. Após a fundação da primeira Misericórdia, a de Lisboa, em 1498, assistiu-se a uma difusão célere destas instituições, que passaram a deter o quase monopólio da assistência em Portugal. Este texto estuda uma dessas confrarias de leigos, sob imediata proteção régia, viradas para o exterior, com o propósito de praticar as 14 obras de misericórdia do catecismo cristão: a Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Pombal, irmandade com existência documentada em 1628. Depois de uma breve incursão pelas diferentes fases que a instituição conheceu ao longo da história, o texto debruça-se sobre o edifício do hospital, os assalariados do sector da saúde, os doentes internados e, sobretudo, o património móvel existente naquele espaço na segunda metade de Oitocentos.

The purpose of this article is to study an institution which had, and continues to have, a very important role in society, particularly in respect to the healthcare provision. After the foundation of the first Misericórdia there was a fast diffusion of these institutions, which came to have the almost monopoly of assistance in Portugal. This text studies one of these confraternities of laity, under royal protection, facing to society, with the purpose of practicing the corporal and spiritual Works of Mercy: the Santa Casa da Misericórdia of Pombal, a brotherhood with existence documented since 1628. After brief notes about the different phases of the institution throughout history, the text studies the hospital building, salaried employees in the health sector, hospitalized patients and, above all, the movable heritage existing in that space in the second half of 19th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

O presente trabalho tem como objetivo analisar o papel desempenhado pelo hospital da Misericórdia de Caminha na assistência à doença, durante o século XIX. Nesse sentido, através da atividade desenvolvida por esta instituição e pelos profissionais que nela trabalhavam, procuraremos conhecer as respostas que então eram proporcionadas no âmbito da prestação de cuidados de saúde à população. Temos ainda como objetivo evidenciar as particularidades que caracterizavam o quotidiano daquela unidade hospitalar, considerando os doentes que a procuravam e as enfermidades de que padeciam e tendo ainda presente o contexto económico e social que, na centúria de oitocentos, marcava a vila alto minhota de Caminha.

Until the end of the 19th century the Portuguese villages of Coruche and Erra had two hospitals, which were managed by the local Misericórdias. The hospital of Coruche was the main healthcare facility and the only one that remained after 1883, when the failing brotherhood of Erra was assimilated into the Misericórdia of Coruche, and its hospital became extinct.. In this paper we describe the services provided by the hospitals during the 19th century and first decade of the 20th century. We analyzed the share of expenditure of the hospital in the budget of the brotherhood of Coruche, its medical staff, including their technical capabilities. Furthermore, the users of the hospitals are quantified and described. The fragility of the Hospital of Erra is also proved, as well as of the Misericórida of the same village, reflected in the weak assistance provided and on the low number of patients that it could receive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the role played, in care of illness, by the hospital of the Misericórdia of Caminha in Alto Minho during the 19th century, through the action of this institution and the professionals who worked on it.