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The article deals with the occurence of whooping cough epidemics using the example of the parish of Detva in the 1860s. However, the problem is more complicated in that the disease appears in the church registers as a cough (tussis), not as a whooping cough (pertussis / tussis convulsiva). Therefore, it was repeatedly verified in the medical literature and sources of the time whenever these terms are correlated. I present how whooping cough is characterized, and how its epidemics manifested themselves in the past. Another part of the text is an analysis of register records, indicating cough, or whooping cough as the cause of death based on records of burials from the parish of Detva in today's central Slovakia. Victims who perished of a "cough" died in every year of the analyzed decade. That was also the main reason why I chose this period. My goal was to find out the basic demographic characteristics of the epidemics, such as the average age of the victims, the gender ratio and the proportion of deaths of cough victims to other deceased. Then I would calculate the crude death rate of whooping cough victims and analyzing the seasonality of epidemics. In addition, the research also follow the course of the infection in different parts of the parish, comparing the primary centre of the parish, i.e., the town of Detva, with the periphery of the region, which was made up of estates scattered in the hills.
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The look into the history of Detva’s parish in a „long” century approximates the conditions and factors which significantly influenced the life of the main actors of the local ecclesial community. Population living mainly at scattered mountain settlement was associated by Detva, in which all official, economic, cultural and religion life of the region was focused. Geographical distance between scattered settlements and the centre of Podpoľanie in practice often involved several hours walking pilgrimages of mountain settlers to Detva and back. There was no other way for believers to fulfil all of their religious and national commitments, than to regularly undergo these challenging routes throughout this „long“ century. Currently Roman Catholic parish as the first and basic organizational unit in the region played a major role in the past not only in pastoral care, but also in education, informing, health care and charity. Despite that state was taking over all of these competencies during the „long” century, the position of priest as an honourable authority in the town and at the mountain settlements did not change and remained as a unifying entity in subsequent years of the 20th century.
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The first demographic studies in Slovakia emerged before the Second World War and dealt mainly with the ethnic diversity of the population living in the Slovak-Hungarian border region. A revival in Slovak historical demography research came in the late 20th century. There emerged studies devoted to population growth in the pre-statistical age. Scholars studied the development of settlement as well as its impact on the natural environment. Most recent studies also deal with more recent history of Slovakia, especially in the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century — they examine demographic processes and population structure, and are based on censuses from 1919, 1938 and 1940. In Slovakia demographic research is a supplement to historical research more than anything else. There are no studies using the aggregation method and the family reconstruction method. However, research conducted over the last few years by a new generation of historians, demographers, sociologists and ethnographers provides a basis for setting a new direction in historical-demographic research in Slovakia.
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