Suchergebnisse

Die vorliegende Arbeit versucht regionalgeschichtlich die Auswirkungen der Spanischen Grippe auf die Bevölkerung der Steiermark zu ergründen. Um ein adäquates Bild der damaligen Situation zu erhalten, wurden Sterbematriken, Pfarr- und Schulchroniken, sowie Zeitungsartikel ausgewertet. Die Ausgangsfrage war, ob die Spanische Grippe in meiner Heimatgemeinde Geistthal mehr Menschenleben forderte, als Gemeindebürger im Ersten Weltkrieg fielen. Die jeweiligen Mortalitätsraten, Besonderheiten und die mit den Quellen einhergehende Probleme werden in den Beispielgemeinden Geistthal und Gratkorn beschrieben, regionalgeschichtlich mit Graz verglichen und die jeweiligen Ergebnisse in den Gesamtkontext der Grippepandemie eingebettet. Ein besonderes Augenmerk wurde dabei auf die behördliche Reaktion gelegt, deren Handlungsspielraum ermittelt und die gesetzten Verhaltensmaßregeln mit jenen in der Fachliteratur geläufigen gegenübergestellt. Hauptanliegen der Diplomarbeit ist es, die historische Lücke in der Erforschung der Spanischen Grippe in Österreich zu verkleinern; zu diesem Zweck war es, neben der regionalgeschichtlichen Herangehensweise an die Thematik, auch notwendig auf die allgemeine Situation Österreichs am Ende des Ersten Weltkrieges einzugehen. ; This thesis attempts to examine the impact of the Spanish Flu on the styrian people. To get the right picture of this particular situation it was necessary to evaluate the death toll of the villages in my home region. In order to this it was also necessary to evaluate newspaper articles and chronicles of village references. The main question was, if the Spanish Flu killed more people in my home village, than the total men of the village that have been killed during the First World War. Death tolls and other characteristics of the pandemic are explained with the villages of Geistthal and Gratkorn, compared with the particular situation in Graz. A special focus is on the reaction of the local governments and the instructions of them, compared to special literature. The main focus is to close the gap on the research of the Spanish Flu in Austria. Besides the regional context, it was important to explain the situation in Austria at the end of World War I. ; vorgelegt von Thomas Hörzer ; Abweichender Titel laut Übersetzung der Verfasserin/des Verfassers ; Zsfassung in engl. Sprache ; Graz, Univ., Dipl.-Arb., 2010 ; (VLID)211771

• Policy: Lowell schools and theatres have been closed indefinitely due to the influenza epidemic by a conference board of health officials and the mayor• Policy: chairman of the public safety committee of Massachusetts, Henry B. Endicott, requests that unnecessary gatherings be called off; the board acted on this decision with a policy/ban• Unnecessary gatherings includes such places as churches, schools, moving picture shows, and theatres• The board took no action on church policy, leaving the matter up to the local pastors who have taken no action, leaving church service open for tomorrow• The communication from the public safety committee reads in part, "No unnecessary gatherings should be held.until the authorities tell us the danger is over" and "I urge. communities to assume their part of the common responsibility and to act as if they were already in the midst of this epidemic"• Regarding doctors and nurses, the communication reads in part, "We are using every effort, both through the government and outside the states, to get additional help for these people"• Regarding Liberty Loan the communication reads in part, "The cancellation of all Liberty loan meeting places upon the people of Massachusetts a responsibility for individual effort greater than that which the citizens of any other state are called upon to bear"• The board of health reports that there were 225 cases so far today, bringing the total to 1,050• Deaths to date number more than 50• Policy: chairman H.B. Endicott wired to Mayor Thompson to report daily on the number of influenza cases and deaths from influenza in Lowell• Chairman Endicott also requests that the number of active and available doctors and nurses be counted and wired to him at once• Nurses of the health department and the Lowell Guild will be given Red Cross vehicles to drive about the city with right of way, furnished by members of the municipal council• Policy: Mayor Thompson requests the police inspect the restaurants, lunch carts, and saloons for all traces of influenza are free from all dishes in use• It is said the board of health does not want to close all public eating places• Policy: all manufacturing plants have been requested to remove any public drinking cups or glasses in these establishments ; Newspaper article ; 1, 4

• Spanish influenza reported in American Atlantic coast cities• Officials think people on returning American transports have brought the infection• There is little means of combating the infection save for quarantine, which would be impossible now because it would interrupt intercourse between communities as drastically as the days of yellow fever in the South did• Precautionary measures considered the best weapons to combat the new malady; the disease is new to American physicians• Government may issue county wide warnings of how to avoid it and treat it• "Spanish influenza, although short-lived and of practically no permanent serious results is a most distressing ailment which prostrates the sufferer for a few days during which he suffers the acme of discomfort." ; Newspaper article ; 4

Wenn viele Menschen nach Symptomen wie Halsweh, Schnupfen oder Gliederschmerzen im Internet suchen, kursiert eine Grippewelle. Der Suchmaschinenanbieter Google wertet nun auch in Deutschland die Eingaben seiner Nutzer aus, um Ärzte und Gesundheitsbehörden frühzeitig zu warnen. Der Service "Grippe Trends" ging nach einer Pilotphase in den USA am Oktober in 19 weiteren Ländern an den Start.

Die Vogelgrippe könnte Milliardenschäden verursachen. Das Parlament sollte deshalb schleunigst die bloss 15 Millionen zur Abwehr der Pandemie bewilligen, schreibt Tilman Slembeck