Abstract

GONZALEZ FLORES, José Gustavo. The demographic repercussions of the epidemics in the parish of Santa Maria de las Parras (1762-1815). Let. hist. [online]. 2018, n.19, pp.79-98. ISSN 2448-8372.

This article analyzes the demographic repercussions of the epidemics from 1762 to 1815 through the case in the parish of Santa Maria de las Parras (Coahuila) Epidemics were a recurrent demographic phenomenon but the Bourbon period was more serious Diseases multiplied. This caused a great number of deaths and the stagnation of the population. Also, at the end of the eighteenth century the first signs of modernity are observed because the diseases are palliated with measures such as the variolization in 1798 and the creation of cemeteries outside the church during the typhus of 1814. This epidemic of 1814 was the most fatal in terms of number of deaths recorded, not only in Parras, but throughout the south of the present state of Coahuila.

Keywords : Parras; epidemic; population; smallpox; thypus.

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