БОРБА ПРОТИВ КОЛЕРЕ У СРБИЈИ КРАЈЕМ 19. ВЕКА
STRUGGLE AGAINST CHOLERA IN SERBIA IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: Epidemics have always posed a great danger to mankind, both in terms of their unpredictable outbreaks and huge human losses. The most dangerous disease which decimated the population in the past centuries was certainly plague, also known in literature as the black death. Nothing less dangerous was cholera, which was a disease of urban centres, transmitted by use of contaminated water. This paper examines the development of the healthcare system in Serbia, and methods of struggle against the cholera epidemic in the 19th century. The main emphasis is placed on the attempts of Serbian officials to prevent the cholera epidemic in Serbia in 1892. It was ascertained that the official authorities in the earlier decades gained significant experience and applied highly efficacious means to suppress this pernicious enemy. The mass disinfection of sanitary blocks, and fast tracing and isolation of the diseased helped successfully avoid the danger of the outbreak of a mass cholera epidemic in Serbia. This significant result of the modest sanitary system of the Kingdom of Serbia was all the more important given the tragic experiences of those countries where cholera flared into a mass and unfettered infection, such as Russia and bigger towns of Germany.

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