Almost a century of mortality in a mayan population at Campeche... thanks to the bull

Abstract

This paper presents the changes in mortality and morbidity in the twentieth century in the town of Pomuch, Campeche, and its relationship with the socio-economic indicators, in the context of demographic and epidemiologic transition that took place globally and nationally. The aim was to analyze the trends and changes in the pattern of mortality in account to number and causes of death according to the distribution by sex and age groups, and to determine the economic and cultural factors involved. The study allowed us to observe the transformation of the epidemiologic profile within in this population, accounting for disease outbreaks and changes in morbidity in relation to the improvement of the health care service and other public services. The source of information were books of death of the Civic Register Office, with the particularity of not presenting information from the 1925-1950 period because the books were burned down in an attempt to fire the Municipal Palace because of a bull indulto granted at the local holiday.