Original scientific paper
Inmates of the prison camp in Velika Pisanica treated in the hospital of Bjelovar (1945—1946)
Dubravko Habek
orcid.org/0000-0003-1304-9279
; Catholic University of Croatia
Abstract
On the basis of unexplored archive data the paper gave information on
the ill and deceased inmates of the Prison Camp in Velika Pisanica, a
place in the vicinity of Bjelovar. The research found 84 ill or wounded
inmates both male and female and children who were sent for treatment
to the District hospital of Bjelovar and were there during summer of
1945. Treatments had different outcomes, e. g. full cure, improved condition,
uncured condition or death. On the basis of living conditions
in the camps morbidity is connected to diseases such as infectious diseases
(typhoid, dysentery, tuberculosis, diphtheria), venereal diseases
(endometriosis, syphilis), inflammatory diseases (abscesses, phlegmon),
abortions with death because of sepsis and premature births, typical for
camp conditions. According to the data we got four camp inmates died
in the mentioned period. Three of them were women who died of infections
and sepsis and one man who died of heart disease and inanition.
Since the accurate number of camp inmates, ill, gone and deceased in
the Prison camp of Velika Pisanica during and after the Second World
War has not been researched and defined yet this paper is a contribution
for further research in defining the living conditions, morbidity and death
of the imprisoned in the Prison Camp in Velika Pisanica.
Keywords
Prison Camp; Velika Pisanica; Bjelovar; hospital; morbidity; death
Hrčak ID:
216840
URI
Publication date:
15.7.2015.
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