Natrpana domovanja in druge grožnje zdravju: : razprave o higienizaciji v Avstrijskem primorju ob koncu 19. stoletja

slovenian

2024

volume 64, issue 1

hygienisation   infant mortality   living conditions   Trieste

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The following paper observes the discourse developing in the Austrian Littoral (especi-ally in Trieste) around the debates regarding hygienisation and urban sanitation. It highli-ghts the growing social importance of hygiene in its broadest sense since the end of the 19thcentury, 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 medi-cal, 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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