title: [Good and bad times of Mexican Hospitals towards 1910].
abstract: This paper presents the situation of the Mexican hospitals from 1910 to 1920, times of the Mexican Revolution at that time the country had 15 million inhabitants. After the Revolution there were 14 million, the reduction casualities caused deaths by the armed movement, infected-contagious diseases and hunger. In the previous years to the Revolution during the government of Porfirio Díaz, Mexico had public hospitals (originated in the vice-royalty), non profit hospitals, private hospitals, military hospitals, for the railroad workers, and hospitals for miners. In the last period of the government of Porfirio Diaz public hospitals, "pavillon" type were constructed. During the Revolution were war hospitals created or fortified the emergency services. In 1920 the great majority of the hospitals in Mexico worked deficiently.
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Distrito Federal, México. gfortiz@servidor.unam.mx
authors.forename: Guillerm
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fajardo-Ortiz
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D006761:Hospitals / Q000266:history*; D008800:Mexico