Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.21.2.4
SPATIAL AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF THE 1918-1919 PANDEMIC FLU IN SPLIT
Lena Mirošević
orcid.org/0000-0002-8016-9783
; Odjel za geografiju, Sveučilište u Zadru, Zadar, Hrvatska
Antonia Mić
; Odjel za geografiju, Sveučilište u Zadru, Zadar, Hrvatska.
Abstract
The Spanish flu pandemic is considered the largest and most dangerous epidemic at the beginning of the 20th century affecting most of the world today. The Spanish flu pandemic did not bypass the territory of Croatia (at the time, Croatia was part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy), nor its southern coastal region of Dalmatia and the city of Split. Using the example of the city Split, the paper analyses the spatial and demographic determinants of population mortality from the Spanish flu between 1918 and 1919, i.e., from March 1918 to April 1919. The paper is based on the data of the Church Death registers kept in the Archbishop’s Archives in Split and newspaper articles. The analysis of the spatial distribution of mortality within urban settlements showed that the number of deaths per urban settlement
Keywords
Spanish flu; death registers; mortality; Split
Hrčak ID:
313722
URI
Publication date:
31.1.2024.
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