Hygiène et santé publiques à Bordeaux (1870 -1914)
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Abstract EN:
This study defines local authority initiatives in public health and hygiene in a french provincial city. It shows the use of nascent administrative technology by the town hall, which employed increasing financial means and equiped itself with functionnal, structured services, led by competent civil servants. Thus the city of bordeaux adopted and applied the hygienic sanitation themes born of the "pasteur revolution" and spread by the local hygienist movement, guided by several highly actives personalities. Moreover, municipal activity was assisted by a permanent political consensus and an absence of partisan divisions, since the elected council took over the legacy of former assemblies. During the 1880's and 1890's, the city installed a modern system of hygienic sanitation management, directed first of all at sanitation improvement and then at disease prevention. Thus, successfully and discreetly, the biological safety of the local population was taken care of, a testimony to the vigour of french municipalism, which took on new responsabilities as early as the end of the nineteenth century.
Abstract FR:
Cette etude determine les initiatives de l'autorite publique locale en matiere d'hygiene et de sante publiques d'une grande ville de province en france. Elle presente la technicisation administrative naissante de la municipalite qui mobilise des moyens financiers croissants et se dote de services fonctionnels et structures, animes par des fonctionnaires competents. Ainsi, la ville de bordeaux adopte les themes hygienico-sanitaires issus de la "revolution pasteurienne" et diffuses par le mouvement hygieniste local, sous la conduite de quelques personnalites tres actives. De plus, l'action municipale est facilitee par un consensus politique permanent et l'absence de divergences partisanes; le conseil elu assumant l'heritage des assemblees precedentes. Au cours des annees 1880-1890, la ville met en place un systeme de gestion hygienico-sanitaire, oriente d'abord vers l'assainissement puis vers la prophylaxie. Elle assure donc avec succes et discretion la securite biologique de la population communale, temoignant de la vigueur du municipalisme francais qui accepte des la fin du xix-eme siecle ces nouvelles responsabilites.