Vzroki za smrt in načini prebivanja med Kozjakom, Pohorjem in Halozami konec 19. stoletja

slovenian

2023

volume 23, issue 1

age   causes of death   civil registers   dwelling conditions   sex   smokehouses

Zgodovinsko društvo dr. Franca Kovačiča v Mariboru
(Obvezni izvod spletne publikacije)

In this article we show the correlation between dwelling conditions and causes of death recorded in 13,330 records from the civil registers from the end of the 19th century for Maribor, Kozjak, Pohorje, Juršince and Cirkulane. The temporal and local context is based on the prevalence of arhaic house type – so-called smokehouses in the Pohorje and Kozjak areas, which is defined through sources and literature in the article, showing the way of life in smokehouses and their development and decay. By analysing the causes of death, we confirm the parallels between deaths due to tuberculosis in an environment of industrialisation and urbanisation (Maribor) compared to rural areas (Pohorje, Kozjak) and conclude that smokehouses did not have a statistically significant influence on the causes of death or that their influence was nullified by other life circumstances. We show that a sufficiently large corpus of records eliminates the anomalies of non-professional identification of causes of death and that the age and sex parameters in the corpus confirm the general findings for Styria and suggest avenues for further research.

31.01.2025