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Issue 3 (44)

CAMP FEVER EPIDEMIC AS A SUPER-MORTALITY FACTOR OF URBAN POPULATION OF WESTERN SIBERIA (1932–1933)
Year	2014	Number	3(44)
Pages	90-95	Type	scientific article
UDC	94(571.1)”1930”	BBK	63.3(253.3)614+60.75
Authors	Isupov Vladimir A.	Topic	HISTORICAL DEMOGRAPHY IN REGIONAL DEMENSION
Summary	Based on a wide range of sources many of which have not been researched before the authors studied some poorly investigated aspects of genesis and further dynamics of super-mortality of the urban population of Western Siberia during the period of 1932–1933 famine. The article is focused on the study of the urban population mortality causes. This approach was a key to understanding the genesis of the catastrophic demographic situation developing in the region in the early 1930s. In the long list of various factors one major cause was the camp fever, the epidemics of which made a “significant contribution” to the mortality rates growth. The authors paid particular attention to the social component in the genesis and the development of the epidemic of this mortal disease.
Keywords	urban population, famine, typhus, epidemic, sickness rate, death-rate, super mortality, structure of causes of death
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