ABSTRACT
The investigation aims to identify the impacts of the spread of the Spanish flu in school institutions in the city of Rio de Janeiro in 1918, and to discuss the transformations that occurred in the institutional organization. This is a documentary research which uses editions of the newspaper Correio da Manhã, analyzed based on researches on that epidemic and on the bibliography of the History of Education, mainly from the theoretical-methodological field of the History of School Institutions. The results indicate that, initially, several units were closed. But they reveal, above all, that school institutions of different types have been transformed into health help posts, incorporating changes in their social purpose. And they also show that the conditions for facing the Spanish flu epidemic demanded new actions from educational subjects, mainly from teachers, who assumed a leading role in the prevention and care of the population’s health.
Keywords:
History of Education; Brazilian Educational Institutions; Health and Education