Natrpana domovanja in druge grožnje zdravju: razprave o higienizaciji v Avstrijskem primorju ob koncu 19. stoletja
Crowded dwellings and other threats to health: hygienisation debates in the Austrian littoral at the end of the 19th century

Summary/Abstract: The following paper observes the discourse developing in the Austrian Littoral (especially in Trieste) around the debates regarding hygienisation and urban sanitation. It highlights the growing social importance of hygiene in its broadest sense since the end of the 19th century, the awareness of the importance of living conditions in urban areas, and the impact of economic circumstances on infant mortality. The latter represented one of the crucial medical, hygienic, moral, and political arguments to demonstrate the lack of efforts in health prevention and the foundation for the spread of modern, progress-related (bourgeois) ideas, also through the imperatives addressing maternal care. Moreover, the quantitative part of the analysis for both Trieste and Koper indicates that the considerable proportion of deaths among children under five years of age was probably related to social deprivation, also in terms of hygiene, nutrition, prevention, and health care.

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