British policy and the Ionian Islands, 1847–1864: nationalism and imperial administration

Knox, Bruce

doi:10.1093/ehr/xcix.cccxcii.503

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“…This act was the starting point for the existence of official newspapers for all Ionian political parties. However, in each epidemic, the newspapers of the anti-British parties, such as the Rizospastes (Radical-Unionists who wanted unification with Greece), would blame the sanitary organisation and the authorities for their inadequacies 37. The epidemic of smallpox in Corfu, in 1852, caused a great controversy between the British and the Ionian Assembly.…”

Section: The Smallpox Crisis Of 1852mentioning

confidence: 99%

Infectious disease control in the Ionian Islands during the British Protection (1815–1864)

Tsiamis¹,

Thalassinou

Poulakou‐Rebelakou

et al. 2013

J R Army Med Corps

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This review presents the medical and social role of British military doctors in the formation of the British sanitary campaign in the Ionian Islands during the period 1815-1864. They were the core of a health system based on the old sanitary model of the Venetian Republic, which was the former ruler of the region. The British innovation and reorganisation of the old lazarettos (a quarantine system for maritime travellers), the new marine sanitary procedures, the determination of quarantine duration for major infectious diseases along with the introduction of the vaccination system resulted in a satisfactory defence against epidemics in Greece during the 19th century. The British military physicians applied and established West European medical ideas, as well as the principles of preventive medicine, for the first time in the Greek territory and this is a historical example of a successful sanitary campaign based on the experience of military physicians and their collaboration with civilian physicians.

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Section: The Smallpox Crisis Of 1852mentioning

confidence: 99%