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U radu se na temelju brojnih arhivskih izvora, novina te liječničkih zapisa promatraju i analiziraju epidemije kolere u Dalmaciji sredinom 19. stoljeća. Razmatra se razina saznanja o bolesti i protuepidemijske mjere, napose njihova učinkovitost te aktualnost s obzirom na postojeće i rastuće rasprave o etiologiji bolesti. U drugom dijelu rada kao primjer slučaja analizirana je epidemija kolere u Zadru 1849. godine. Na temelju zapisa o koleri u matičnim knjigama umrlih u Zadru prikazuje se broj, dobna, spolna i društvena struktura umrlih., Based on numerous archival sources, newspapers, and medical records, this paper discusses and analyses cholera epidemics in Dalmatia in the mid-19th century. The level of knowledge about the disease and the anti-epidemic measures has been considered, especially their effectiveness and topicality in view of the existing and growing discussions about the aetiology of diseases. In the second part of the paper, the cholera epidemic in Zadar in 1849 has been analysed as a case study. Records of cholera in the registers of deaths in Zadar allow us to estimate the number and age, gender, and social structure of deaths. The epidemic lasted three months and took 62 lives. It affected both men and women, and all age groups, especially the fertile one. Given the aetiology of the disease, the most endangered and most severely affected by the epidemic were the individuals of lower social and financial status, whose living and business conditions favoured a faster, stronger, and more intensive development of the disease.

Sistematskom obradom matičnih knjiga rođenih, vjenčanih i umrlih te Stališa duša za Veli Brgud, kao i obradom brojnih drugih povijesnih izvora, autor je prikupio mnoštvo podataka o životu, epidemijama i brojnim nesrećama koje su obilježile živote stanovnika ovog mjesta tijekom 19. stoljeća te ovim radom navedene podatke čini dostupnima i široj javnosti. Veli Brgud i danas se sjeća samo jedne od tih epidemija i nesreća, kolere iz 1855. godine, a na druge se potpuno zaboravilo. Prikazane su epidemije i nesreće koje oslikavaju težak život sela tijekom 19. stoljeća. Usto se upravo na primjeru kolere daje i uvid u rad tadašnjih vlasti na prevenciji i zaštiti od širenja zaraza za koji i s vremenske distance od gotovo 170 godina možemo reći da je bio učinkovit., The authorʼs systematic analysis of the registers of births, marriages, and deaths and the Status Animarum for Veli Brgud, as well as analysis of numerous other historical sources gathered a lot of data about life, epidemics, and many disasters that marked the lives of the village residents during the 19th century. This paper serves to present the information to the general public. Veli Brgud still remembers only one of those epidemics and disasters – the 1855 cholera, while others are completely forgotten. The paper tackles epidemics and disasters that depict the difficult life of the village during the 19th century. Additionally, the example of cholera serves to give an insight into the functioning of the then authorities on prevention and protection against the spread of infections, which can be deemed effective even from a time distance of almost 170 years.

Uz brojne nedaće koje su svakodnevno sustizale katolike u Hercegovini, s vremena na vrijeme dolazile su i zarazne bolesti protiv kojih u ono vrijeme nije bilo nikakva lijeka te su uzimale brojne ljudske živote, a neke su, osobito kuga, prerastale i u prave epidemije, dok bi se ona iz 1814.-1818. godine mogla označiti i kao pandemija. Autor na temelju ljetopisa i drugih izvora, a u prvome redu sačuvanih matičnih knjiga katoličkih župa iz turskoga razdoblja, nastoji rekonstruirati učestalost, snagu i dužinu trajanja pojedinih zaraznih bolesti u zapadnoj Hercegovini, prije svega kuge, a potom i kolere i velikih boginja, kao i nekih drugih zaraznih bolesti. Veliki je nedostatak za zaokruženje slike o navedenoj temi gubitak brojnih matičnih knjiga, tako da za neka hercegovačka područja postoje tek manjkave naznake o raširenosti i dužini trajanja pojedinih zaraza, a za druga čak niti to., It has long been known that registers provide exceptional data related to demographic trends and changes in the specific area they cover. An increasing number of people, both professionals and amateurs, use them not only for the purpose of drafting family trees, but also to reconstruct the overall life processes of a place or a parish. The same applies to Herzegovina, although there is still plenty of work to do. In this paper, the author demonstrates the value of data hidden in the registers related to a very specific and selected topic: infectious diseases in the west-Herzegovinian territory during the Ottoman rule. Unfortunately, not all registers from this period have been preserved, moreover only few of them were saved, which makes the data incomplete and insufficient. However, combined with other sources, primarily lists of Catholic population from this period and records of contemporary (Franciscan) annals, there can be found extremely valuable and up to now completely unknown data. The author gives a particularly detailed analysis of great plague that affected a large part of Europe in 1814, including the area of Herzegovina. In two years the plague killed millions in Europe and halved the Catholic population in Bosnia and Herzegovina. For other religious communities the situation was even worse, but there were no details due to the fact that their registers did not exist. However, it is completely clear that the effects of the plague in Herzegovina were not nearly as devastating as in Bosnia, and some parishes indeed remained spared from it, especially Ruzici and Posusje. The worst situation was in the parish of Brotnjo that lost half of its population, which was in line with the total BH average. Apart from plague, the paper, based almost exclusively on preserved registers, analyzes the other infectious diseases, especially cholera and smallpox, and to a lesser extent, measles and dysentery. Only exceptionally high birth rate at the time saved the Catholics from complete extinction. Constant pressure of unbearable persecution and levies from the Turkish authorities and tyrants, regularly on the brink of starvation, with today unimaginable infant mortality rate of probably 50 %, and from time to time subjected to devastating plague and other contagious diseases, they managed to resist only giving birth to offspring. The number of Catholics in the early 18th century had dropped to only 20 thousand, in the early 19th century it rose to almost 120,000, and then the plague between 1814 and 1818, again halved and reduced that number to 50,000. Since then, the population has been constantly growing, despite World War I and what was called Spanish fever, an unprecedented infectious disease that ensued at the end of the war, despite the huge losses in manpower during World War II, and especially after the war, and despite the ongoing migrations which started in the 60s of the 20th century reaching thus its historical peak. Finally, in the Homeland war numerous Catholic Croats were expelled from their homes, particularly in Bosnian Posavina and Krajina and the number again halved in comparison to the 70s or 80s of the 20th century. It is hard to imagine that the number of Catholics will in the near future recover again, as it normally happened in previous centuries. The reason: there is no such birth rate that has been in the previous centuries the strongest bulwark against extinction.