Epidemics in the Dąbrowa Coal Basin in the 19th and Early 20th Century
Abstract
The article presents the course of the epidemic in the Dąbrowa Basin in the 19th
and early 20th century. Accelerated industrial growth of the region was a factor
contributing to the development of large urban centers, which in turn led to a truly
negative phenomenon of a rapid spread of a number of serious illnesses. Over-
population of factory settlements and tragically poor sanitation, which most of the
Dąbrowa Basin inhabitants had to suffer in the 19th century, facilitated the out-
breaks of infectious diseases, such as typhus, cholera and others. It was only thanks
to the measures taken at the turn of the 20th century – which included introducing
a strict sanitary regime – that the previously uncontrolled able spread of the epi-
demic could finally be halted.
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