📻 Audio capsule – Script and transcript
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2-minute audio capsule for Station 3 – Bathing room and well. Listen to the audio or read the transcript, as you prefer.
🎙️ Audio capsule EN (2 min) – The audio capsule will be published in Sprint 4c. Meanwhile, you can read the full transcript below.
Station 3 – Bathing room and well
This is the bathing room and the well. In the early twentieth century, running water did not exist in most Cayenne homes.
Water came from the well or from rain-fed cisterns. Bathing was a deliberate, frugal, organized act.
Under the humid, hot climate, hygiene is also a public health issue. Epidemics of yellow fever and malaria marked Cayenne in the nineteenth century.
Urban sanitation was a major concern of colonial doctors and Creole bourgeois families.