Smrdelo je kot kuga : k zgodovini higienskih razmer v Ljubljani pred prvo svetovno vojno

Abstract

In his treatise, the author discusses the processes of hygienisation which were under way in the town of Ljubljana at the end of the 19th century. In the period before the earthquake of 1895, filth and stench, writes the author, reigned in Ljubljana. The housing conditions of the lower, and partly also of the middle social strata, were very unsuitable and unhealthy. The post-earthquake or Hribar's Ljubljana (named after Hribar, who was mayor of the city from 1896- 1910), was characterised by its numerous campaigns against filth and the new notions in the field of town hygiene it introduced - in particular the concepts of waterworks and a sewage system, along with detailed construction regulations, more rigorous control of the Sanitary Inspectorate (German: Stadtphysikat) and stricter enforcement of penalties for offenders in the form of fines or gaol sentences. However, numerous examples from every day life at the time indicate that some pre-earthquake customs, habits and conditions in the field of hygiene survived nonetheless. These were, through social education, only replaced gradually by more wholesome customs in the post-earthquake period.