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contact, the population was 126 people, according to the
genealogies which I have reconstructed. The flu epidemic
resulting from contact killed 86 people. The census I
undertook in 1961, showed a total of 40 people, 14 men,
7 women, and 21 children. In 1961, a smallpox epidemic
affected the group, killing 6 more people. The medical
assistance provided mainly by Dr. João Paulo Botelho
Vieira Filho, of the Escola Paulista de Medicina [of São
Paulo], who has visited the group since the beginning
of the 60s, has made possible a broad demographic recovery.
In 1985, Iara Ferraz recorded a total of 109 pessoas,
52 men and 57 women. In 1997, the population total was
185 people, according to the survey done by the medical
doctor João Paulo Botelho Vieira Filho. |
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Roque de Barros Laraia
University of Brasília
laraia@unb.br
September, 1998
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