SPANISH INFLUENZA PANDEMIC IN THE NORTHERN REGIONS OF THE KINGDOM OF HUNGARY IN 19181

• Authors: Szeghy-Gayer Veronika
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper aims to summarize the impact of the Spanish influenza pandemic on the northern regions of the Kingdom of Hungary, today’s Slovakia. The main aim of the study is to compare two types of accessible epidemic data, the statistics prepared by the Hungarian city or county administration and the civil death records in the period between September and December 1918. In the first part of the paper, the historical context of the second wave and the issue of the anti-epidemic measures are discussed, while the second part is dedicated to the analysis of the pandemic data related to different regions of present-day Slovakia. It is argued that the partial data published below might offer a representative case study on the course of the pandemic and the number of fatalities in this specific region of the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.

Keywords

EN

SPANISH INFLUENZA; SLOVAK TERRITORY; CIVIL RECORDS; EPIDEMIC STATISTICS; SOCIAL HISTORY; KINGDOM OF HUNGARY

• Publisher: Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Historický časopis (Historical Journal)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 72
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 547 - 564

Contributors

author

Szeghy-Gayer Veronika

• Institute of Social Sciences CSPS SAS, Karpatská 5, 040 01 Košice, Slovak Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2139-0605

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/histcaso.2024.72.3.6