Заразне болести у Сарајеву (1918-1928)
Infectious Diseases in Sarajevo (1918 - 1928)
Author(s): Aleksandra Pijuk-PejčićSubject(s): Local History / Microhistory, Government/Political systems, Security and defense, Health and medicine and law, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Institut za istoriju
Keywords: infectious diseases; housing conditions; hygienic conditions; tuberculosis; scarlet fever; measles; Spanish flu; syphilis; Sarajevo; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Kingdom of Serbs; Croats, and Slovenes;
Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with infectious diseases in Sarajevo (1918 -1928). The absence of modernization processes in the rural area and their insufficiency in the city, primarily the water supply and sewage network, roads, and health care facilities, have caused poor housing and hygiene conditions. Such conditions, accompanied by demobilization and poverty, were the cause of the spread of infectious diseases such as typhus, tuberculosis, scarlet fever, diphtheria, dysentery, Spanish flu, and syphilis. This long-lasting process inherited from the previous authorities was accompanied by health (in)education of the population, so the work on improving health conditions was hampered by a very low level of general sense of hygiene and non-acceptance of the recommendations of contemporary medicine.
Journal: Prilozi
- Issue Year: 2021
- Issue No: 50
- Page Range: 165-193
- Page Count: 29
- Language: Serbian