A Model Slaughterhouse: The role of the Public Slaughterhouse of Santa Cruz in technological innovations (1870-1920).
Santa Cruz Slaughterhouse; Technological Innovations; History of Science and Technology.
This research has as its object the Public Slaughterhouse of Santa Cruz, built
in the Imperial Fazenda de Santa Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, and its role in technological
innovations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Starting from an initial debate on
the concepts of technique, technology and science, we seek to contextualize how the
concentration of mass slaughter occurred in other countries in order to comparatively
analyze how it was applied in the Santa Cruz Slaughterhouse, since this was constituted
in model for the other municipalities of the Empire. In order to support this approach,
the topics presented here deal with the role of the Empire Law of 1828 in the regulation
of Municipal Councils and organization of cities, analyzing sanitary interventions for
the control and concentration of the slaughter of animals for consumption. Also
indicated are the requests for industrial privileges and the inventions produced for
slaughtering activities in Brazil, observed as examples of technological application to
the slaughterhouse space in that period.