Epidemija v so lskih klopeh. Primer spanske gripe leta 1918 v osrednjeslovenskem prostoru/EPIDEMIC ON SCHOOL BENCHES. A CASE OF SPANISH FLU IN 1918 IN CENTRAL SLOVENIA

The Spanish flu pandemic is considered one of the greatest catastrophes in human history. In the period of 1918-1920, the disease infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide and, according to the most recent data, resulted in the deaths of 50 to 100 million. The second wave of the flu pandemic also reached the population of the Slovenian provinces between September and December 1918. Morbidity rates among pupils and teachers in Ljubljana and the wider central Slovenian area are one of the rare aspects of the epidemic that have to some degree been documented and directly point to the wide prevalence of influenza. The rates of school absenteeism varied between 16% and 75% of all pupils. The only public health measure to be implemented in Carniola during the epidemics was a one-month closure of all schools, first in Ljubljana and then in the most severely affected districts in Lower Carniola./Pandemija spanske gripe velja za eno najvecjih katastrof v cloveski zgodovini. V obdobju 1918-1920 naj bi po vsem svetu zbolelo 500 milijonov ljudi in jih po zadnjih ocenah umrlo med 50 in 100 milijoni. Drugi val pandemije gripe je med septembrom in decembrom 1918 prizadel tudi prebivalstvo v slovenskih dezelah. Obolevanje ucencev in uciteljev za spansko gripo v Ljubljani in v sirsem osrednjeslovenskem prostoru je eno od redkih dogajanj v zvezi z epidemijo, ki je do dolocene mere dokumentirano in ki neposredno kaze na veliko razsirjenost influence. Delez ucencev, ki so manjkali pri pouku, je bil v posameznih solah razlicen, in sicer v razponu 16-75 % vseh solarjev. Edini javnozdravstveni ukrep na Kranjskem med epidemijo je bilo enomesecno zaprtje vseh sol najprej v Ljubljani, nato pa se v najbolj prizadetih okrajih na Dolenjskem.