Armies -- Medical and sanitary affairs; Epidemics -- History; Medicine, Military -- History; Military hygiene
Typhus fever was also conveyed into various parts of Moravia,[182]
partly by Austrian troops, and partly by French prisoners; in the
districts of Brünn, Iglau, Olmütz, and Teschen it broke out in numerous
places. In twelve communities in these districts, having a combined
population of 28,267, some 2,126 people contracted the disease between
December 1813 and the summer of 1814, and 207 persons succumbed. In
March the epidemic disappeared almost everywhere. According to the
figures compiled by J. Hain,[183] the number of deaths in Moravia and
Austrian-Silesia together was:
July (1813) 3,818
August 3,893
September 3,888
October 4,059
November 4,457
December 5,202
January (1814) 8,280
February 7,249
March 7,756
April 5,464
May 5,541
June 4,147
In Lower Austria typhus fever also broke out, particularly in Vienna;
the number of deaths there was:
_Due to typhus fever._ _All deaths._
1813 784 12,971
1814 1,529 15,309
In the rest of the country few diseases appeared, despite the fact that
troops kept marching back and forth.
Typhus fever was conveyed by marching troops to Styria also; the source
of the pestilence was the seven military hospitals in Graz. We read in
the report:[184] ‘The pestilence, proceeding principally from the seven
military hospitals lying within the city limits as from a focus, was
spread abroad by convalescents, attendants, physicians, &c. The
mortality in these hospitals was extremely high; the buildings set aside
for the purpose could scarcely accommodate the number of sick.
Everything was topsy-turvy; the corps of field-doctors on hand was not
nearly large enough to take even the most necessary care of the large
number of patients.’ The region around Graz, Marburg, and Bruck was most
severely attacked by the disease, which also spread to Carinthia and
broke out in Klagenfurt and vicinity.
7. SURVEY OF THE EPIDEMIC OF TYPHUS FEVER IN THE YEARS 1813–14
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