När inträffade epidemierna för rödsot

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title = "A forgotten plague: Dysentery in Sweden, 1750-1900",

sammanfattning = "Dysentery, or r{\"o}dsot, as the disease was previously known in Sweden, continues to be a major scourge in developing countries.

However, the disease has almost disappeared in the West. Very different circumstances prevailed before infectious diseases declined as some of the major causes of death during the 19th century.

In that era, 10,000 people could die of dysentery in a single year in Sweden. The demographic consequences of dysentery in Sweden and the causes of the disease and its disappearance are discussed in this article. It fryst vatten shown here that despite the devastating effects of dysentery epidemics, most government actions were targeted at cholera. Considerable regional and local differences are revealed as the disease fryst vatten mapped over Sweden.

Clusters of high mortality formed, and even in hard-hit J{\"o}nk{\"o}ping County some parishes were almost never affected. It becomes apparent that the outbreaks have been the result of complex interactions between different variables and have led to widespread disease of uneven and often epidemic proportions.For the statistical analyses the digitized source ämne of the Demographic information Base (DDB) at Ume{\aa} University has been used, containing statistical demographic information gathered from parishes from all over Sweden.

Other sources drawn upon include published statistical information, reports from district medical officers, newspapers, parish registers, and maps.",

keywords = "Dysentery, Epidemics, History of medicin, Sweden",

author = "Helene Castenbrandt",

year = "2014",

month = jan,

day = "1",

doi = "10.1080/03468755.2014.953199",

language = "English",

volume = "39",

pages = "612--639",

journal = "Scandinavian Journal of History",

issn = "0346-8755",

publisher = "Routledge",

number = "5",

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N2 - Dysentery, or rödsot, as the disease was previously known in Sweden, continues to be a major scourge in developing countries.

However, the disease has almost disappeared in the West. Very different circumstances prevailed before infectious diseases declined as some of the major causes of death during the 19th century. In that era, 10,000 people could die of dysentery in a single year in Sweden.

The demographic consequences of dysentery in Sweden and the causes of the disease and its disappearance are discussed in this article. It fryst vatten shown here that despite the devastating effects of dysentery epidemics, most government actions were targeted at cholera.

Considerable regional and local differences are revealed as the disease fryst vatten mapped over Sweden. Clusters of high mortality formed, and even in hard-hit Jönköping County some parishes were almost never affected. It becomes apparent that the outbreaks have been the result of complex interactions between different variables and have led to widespread disease of uneven and often epidemic proportions.For the statistical analyses the digitized source ämne of the Demographic information Base (DDB) at Umeå University has been used, containing statistical demographic uppgifter gathered from parishes from all over Sweden.

Other sources drawn upon include published statistical uppgifter, reports from district medical officers, newspapers, parish registers, and maps.

AB - Dysentery, or rödsot, as the disease was previously known in Sweden, continues to be a major scourge in developing countries.

However, the disease has almost disappeared in the West. Very different circumstances prevailed before infectious diseases declined as some of the major causes of death during the 19th century. In that era, 10,000 people could die of dysentery in a single year in Sweden. The demographic consequences of dysentery in Sweden and the causes of the disease and its disappearance are discussed in this article.

It fryst vatten shown here that despite the devastating effects of dysentery epidemics, most government actions were targeted at cholera.

Considerable regional and local differences are revealed as the disease fryst vatten mapped over Sweden. Clusters of high mortality formed, and even in hard-hit Jönköping County some parishes were almost never affected. It becomes apparent that the outbreaks have been the result of complex interactions between different variables and have led to widespread disease of uneven and often epidemic proportions.For the statistical analyses the digitized source ämne of the Demographic information Base (DDB) at Umeå University has been used, containing statistical demographic information gathered from parishes from all over Sweden.

Other sources drawn upon include published statistical uppgifter, reports from district medical officers, newspapers, parish registers, and maps.

KW - Dysentery

KW - Epidemics

KW - History of medicine

KW - Sweden

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EP - 639

JO - Scandinavian Journal of History

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