Заразне и социјалне болести у Врбаској бановини (1929–1941)
Infectious and Social Diseases in Vrbaska Banovina (1929–1941)

Summary/Abstract: The occurrence of infectious and social diseases in Vrbaska Banovina was influenced by oversized rural population, living in predominantly large family cooperatives with small land properties, growing mainly maize and a little wheat, holding a large number of livestock with poor nutrition, insufficient use of fruit and fruit production and major un-enlightenment and illiteracy. People and livestock nutrition was poor, monotonous and insufficient. Flats, especially in the countryside, were inadequate and overcrowded. In the current social situation of the population, Vrbaska Banovina faced with a number of so-called social diseases – acute infections, tuberculosis, venereal diseases, malaria, alcoholism, chronic and degenerative diseases – which represented a reflection of the low level of health education and population’s common knowledge. The authorities noticed the constant presence of infectious diseases, which in certain areas domesticated, i.e. assumed endemic character, taking its toll especially among the youngest population. Highland districts of the Banovina spaciously suffered most. In such healthcare conditions and problems, a major role in suppressing diseases had the Institute of Hygiene in Banja Luka, as well as district doctors in the Banovina’s inland. Supplying the population with drinking water constituted one of the biggest health problems of the Banovina. The Institute of Hygiene in Banja Luka built about 500 different sanitary and technical facilities in the territory of the Banovina in the period from 1930 to 1940.

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