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The Municipal Laboratory of Cartagena inaugurated on Tuesday, November 22, at the headquarters of the Municipal Archive, in the former Artillery Park, the exhibition commemorating the 125th anniversary of this municipal service that for so many years has been carrying out its work from the Plaza de San Agustin.

The event, which began at 19.00 hours, was attended by the Councilor for the Quality of Life and Health Area, Francisco Calderón;

The councilman of the Area of ​​Interior and Citizen Security, Francisco Aznar;

And the Councilor for Industry, Obdulia Gómez.

This exhibition covers, through various materials and documents, the evolution of the Municipal Laboratory, which has always been a tool of the Administration in the exercise of its responsibilities in the area of ​​health and water control, even before the Health Instruction of the January 12, 1904.

Among the elements that can be found are the laboratory regulations, municipal bands related to the epidemics of the nineteenth and twentieth century or documents on welfare and health, as well as a photographic collection and laboratory material of the time.

The sample will serve to know a municipal tool unknown to many but of extraordinary importance in the care of the health of the cartageneros for 125 years.

With free admission, it will remain open until January 20, 2017 from Monday to Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 1:45 p.m., with afternoon time on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 5:00 p.m. to 7:45 p.m.

ROUND TABLE

After the opening of the exhibition, the round table was celebrated 125 years of history;

The Municipal Laboratory of Cartagena in the Municipal Archive.

In it, the head of the Municipal Archives of Cartagena, Antonio Pedreño;

The head of the Municipal Laboratory, María José Hernández;

The councilman of the Area of ​​Quality of Life and Health, Francisco Calderón;

The councilman of the Area of ​​Interior and Citizen Security, Francisco Aznar;

And the Councilor for Industry, Obdulia Gómez, discussed the vision of the laboratory after 125 years, public health in Cartagena during the Restoration and the figure of Dr. Leopoldo Cándido, or Public Health and Industrial Revolution, among other issues.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena