Higijena i trgovina: primjer dalmatinskih lazareta od 14. do 16. stoljeća
Hygiene and commerce: the example of Dalmatian lazarettos from the fourteenth until the sixteenth century

Summary/Abstract: The author proposes to discuss the evolution of the sanitary measures at the end of the Middle Ages in relation with the trade traffic in the Dalmatian ports. Firstly, the notion of the hygiene in Dalmatia, according to the Statutes laws, has been explained. Secondly, the trade stream which crossed the Dalmatian communes. At the end, the main data on the plague epidemics that struck them has been listed. These epidemics alerted the communes to the problem of hygiene connected with the import of infected merchandise. Dubrovnik was the first city in the world to establish the principle of quarantine in 1 77. However, in the communes dominated by Venice, even if certain protectionism was practised, the link between plague and trade was not taken seriously still in the fifteenth century, and a better documentation appears only since the sixteenth century. Some »deputies of the health« were in charge to issue a fede di sanita for each departure with merchandise in the sea. However, this control was done occasionally. Only with the establishment of the scale (scala) of Split in 1592, sanitary problem was given more consideration.

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