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The free ports of Rijeka and Trieste, along with their surrounding areas from which Ljubljana stood out, were part of a vast network where information was not only collected and exchanged but also created, thereby influencing the state institutions themselves. This article proves that these processes did not fall within the sole free port, but that they acted as a sort of propeller and accelerator in favoring reforms that also impacted the surrounding territory. Beginning with archival documents, the article summates the management of health information and the institutional reforms that derived from it in the 1750s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]