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The epidemic of cholera that took place in the Neretva basin in 1886 was part of the fifth pandemic wave that was spreading throughout Europe. Based on the death records, vital statistics

Two potential paths for cholera to enter the area of the lower Neretva basin have been identified: one from the sea and the other from land, via the neighbouring country of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Quarantine measures had been taken in order to prevent the onslaught of the epidemic, a sanitary cordon was organized, disinfection of the land was carried out and a cholera hospital organized in Metković. However, despite the undertaken measures, an inefficiency of the government organs was obvious, because their actions mainly applied to formal fulfilment of anti-epidemic measures and they quite easily handed over individual initiatives to physicians.

  • God’s Punishment or Bad Strategy: Anti-Epidemic Measures in the Lower Neretva Basin at the Time of Cholera in 1886, Collegium antropologicum, Vol. 36 No. 3, 2012.
  • S. Fatovi}-Feren~i}, M. Wokaunn. Poneretvlje kao patolo{ki topos: tisak i politizacija sje}anja na doba kolere 1886. g, .Iz hrvatske medicinske pro{losti, from Croatian medical history
  • Vekić I, Volarević I. Materijalna svjedočanstva o zaraznim bolestima i epidemijama u dolini Neretve, u: Zbornik radova sa znanstvenog skupa održanog od 2. do 4. prosinca 2015. u Makarskoj. Kuga u Makarskoj i primorju 1815. Makarska: Gradski muzej Makarska, 2017: 463-498.

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