СМРТНЕ ПОСЛЕДИЦЕ ЕПИДЕМИЈЕ ШПАНСКЕ ГРОЗНИЦЕ 1918. ГОДИНЕ У КАМЕНИЧКОМ СРЕЗУ ВАЉЕВСКОГ ОКРУГА
DEATH CONSEQUENCES OF THE SPANISH FLU IN THE 1918 EPIDEMIC IN THE DISTRICT OF KAMENICA (VALJEVO REGION)

Summary/Abstract: It is estimated that the Spanish flu pandemic, which affected the entire planet from 1918 to 1919, affected about five hundred million people, or one-third of the world's population at that time, and killed about fifty million people. The disease was noticed among Serbian soldiers in Corfu in April 1918, and in May among soldiers on the Thessaloniki Front, but without fatal consequences. During the summer, fatalities are also noticed, mainly due to lung compaction. Then the epidemic was spotted in occupied Serbia as well. Just in time for the breakthrough of Thessaloniki Front, (15th of September) a new wave of epidemics started, this time it was fatal. Many soldiers remained lying and dying along the way established military hospitals. Some soldiers successfully arrived at their homes but then passed away, and some found empty homes. In occupied Serbia, mass dying began before liberation. In the region of Valjevo, the first deaths occurred in early October, but massively dying started in late October. It lasted less than two months. Then, by the beginning of the spring of 1919, sporadic deaths due to „pneumonia” were seen as a common complication of Spanish flu, which does not necessarily mean that the epidemic had stopped, but that its end did not carry any fatal consequences. In the lowlands of the Valjevo region, mortality was relatively low (in the parish of the church in Rabrovica - 0,44%), in the hilly area mortality rate was slightly higher (parish of the church in Brankovina - 1,32%), and in the high mountain areas, it was very high. These areas also include the territories of the former district of Kamenica in Valjevo region. According to the 1916 census, it had a population of 20, 289, and in about two months after the epidemic struck, about 1000 people, accurately 5% of the population, died.The least deaths were in the village of Dragijevica, 1,13%, and the highest in Tupanci, 9,81%.

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