Epidemija španske gripe v Ljubljani: »Pričakujemo, da mestni magistrat občinstvu vendar kaj pove o tej bolezni«
The Spanish Flu Epidemic in Ljubljana: “We Expect the Town Hall to Tell the Public at Least Something about this Disease”

Summary/Abstract: The first part of the article at hand describes the world at the time of the Spanish flu pandemic, while in the continuation, it focuses on Carniolan cities with an emphasis on Ljubljana, as well as on the countryside. Based on printed sources – despite their scarcity – it manages to illustrate, to some extent, the health situation of the population and at least partially answer the question of whether people were sufciently informed about the epidemiological situation and what the authorities did to ensure their safety. The author does not have any information at her disposal that would shed light on how people perceived the disease that claimed as many lives in such a short period of time as no war or famine before it, how the infected coped with it, how the population reacted to the (insufcient) measures of the authorities, and so on.

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