Análisis y contextualización de las respuestas articuladas en San Juan de Puerto Rico contra los efectos de lluvias torrenciales (1750-1850)

Abstract

This paper is part of a set of investigations with which we intend to contribute to the study of the circulation of ideas about police science in the Caribbean, in the context of the impact that the incipient globalization process had on the region. In this case we propose the analysis of the effects and the responses given to the problems generated in the urban center of San Juan de Puerto Rico by torrential rains between the years 1750 and 1850, coinciding with the materialization in the city of some significant infrastructures and the implementation of measures related to the improvement of health conditions. For this, we have consulted the “actas capitulares” of the city of San Juan de Puerto Rico and analyzed some of the provisions contemplated on this matter in the good government edicts of the period.