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Infectious Diseases in Hvar 1918 - 1920

Zorka Bibić orcid.org/0000-0002-2234-9612 ; Gradska knjižnica i čitaonica Hvar

Abstract

Based on the unpublished sources from the Fond Općine Hvar (Hvar Municipality Fund) in the Muzej hvarske baštine (Hvar heritage museum) and Župni arhiv u Hvaru (Parish archive in Hvar) there was brought the course of events and dealing with infectious diseases at the end of World War I: dysentery in the summer of 1918, Spanish flu in the period from October 1918 to January 1919 and scarlet fever in March and April of 1920. The unfavorable economic and social situation because of war, the period of malnutrition, the lack of manpower due to being on battlefields as well as poor sanitation and bad life conditions contributed to spreading of the three listed, the so-called social diseases. Eight people died of dysentery, fifteen people died of flu, and of scarlet fever that mostly affected the youngest population, four children died. Even though Hvar, as opposed to other areas, didn’t suffer from a significant population decline after World War I, dealing with these diseases shows proportions of deaths that affected and denoted this area.

Keywords

Hvar; World War I; dysentery; Spanish flu; scarlet fever

Hrčak ID:

284148

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/284148

Publication date:

9.9.2022.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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