Births in Ljubljana During the Second World War with a Particular Focus on Illegitimate Births and the Care of Mothers and Children Cover Image

Rojstva v Ljubljani med drugo svetovno vojno s poudarkom na nezakonskih rojstvih ter skrb za matere in otroke
Births in Ljubljana During the Second World War with a Particular Focus on Illegitimate Births and the Care of Mothers and Children

Author(s): Dunja Dobaja
Subject(s): Social history, Health and medicine and law, Family and social welfare, Demography and human biology, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949)
Published by: Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino
Keywords: Second World War; Ljubljana; births; birth rate; Hospital for Women's Diseases in Ljubljana; birth protocols; Regional Association for the Protection of Mothers and Children;

Summary/Abstract: The first part of the paper presents a birth rate statistics for Ljubljana during the Second World War, based on archive sources, such as the birth protocols of the Hospital for Women's Diseases in Ljubljana from the 1941-1945 period and annual reports on the health situation ill the city for the same period by Dr Mavricij Rus, a city physician. Although the annual report for 1942 has not been preserved, fragments of data for the missing year were retrieved from the reports for other years. In the second part, health and social care of mothers and infants is outlined using the aforementioned annual reports, material from the municipal socio-political office and daily newspapers. The author mainly focuses on infants and preschool children in Ljubljana.

  • Issue Year: 47/2007
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 131-149
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Slovenian