[Gama e Abreu, urban interventions and the salubrity issue in Belém in the second half of the nineteenth century]

The article emphasizes the urban reform interventions aimed at public health improvements in the city of Belém (PA) drawing on the actions of an emblematic social actor for this city during the second half of the nineteenth century: José Coelho da Gama e Abreu. The research used primary sources such as archives and books written by Gama e Abreu, journals, reports, letters and rare works of literature. The urban improvements highlighted a city governed by a bourgeois class rapidly rising due to the export of latex. These reforms provided the opportunity for social segregation in the urban fabric, establishing a new logic for the city.