Cholera Epidemics and the Safety of the Urban Environment in the Last Third of the 19th — the Beginning of the 20th Centuries in the Russian Empire
https://doi.org/10.26105/SSPU.2023.87.6.008
Abstract
The city reform of 1870 gave municipal authorities responsibility for improving the urban environment and ensuring safe conditions for public health. City councils and dumas implemented anti-epidemic measures in three main directions: the creation of a regulatory framework that limited the pollution of the urban environment and the spread of epidemic diseases; the involvement of specialists and citizens in the implementation of sanitary supervision of public areas, households, and industrial enterprises; the modernization of urban water infrastructures. The aim of the study is to identify the changes that took place in the urban economy, legislation, and Russian society under the influence of the threat of the emergence and spread of cholera epidemics. The study indicated that the state played a leading role in ensuring the epidemiological safety of cities. There were significant changes in sanitary legislation, new social institutions were created to ensure the implementation of anti-epidemic measures and sanitary supervision, and from the 1890s the state provided cities with financial resources to improve water supply conditions.
About the Author
A. B. Agafonova
Higher School of Economics University — St.-Petersburg
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Agafonova Anna Borisovna — PhD (History), Research Fellow of Laboratory for Environmental and Technological History
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Agafonova A.B. Cholera Epidemics and the Safety of the Urban Environment in the Last Third of the 19th — the Beginning of the 20th Centuries in the Russian Empire. Surgut State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2023;(6 (87)):76-86. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.26105/SSPU.2023.87.6.008
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