Open AccessZapobieganie i walka z epidemiami na południowo-wschodniej granicy Rzeczypospolitej za czasów króla Stanisława Augusta Poniatowskiego
Author(s) -
Ewa Danowska
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
studia historyczne
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0025-1429
DOI - 10.12797/sh.60.2017.01.02
Subject(s) - commonwealth , treasury , quarantine , state (computer science) , lithuanian , order (exchange) , geography , political science , ancient history , economic history , humanities , history , law , art , philosophy , medicine , business , linguistics , finance , pathology , algorithm , computer science
Prevention and Struggle Against Epidemics on the South-Eastern Borderlands of the Commonwealth in the Times of Stanisław August Poniatowski
Epidemics posed serious threat in the 18th century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Their most common appearance was evidenced in the south-eastern borderlands, and they often spread towards the center of the state with the movement of merchants and the military. In order to prevent the spread of these, a special quarantine houses were established on the borders. It were mainly the borderland magnates, as well as the state territorial administration headed by the Committee of Royal Treasury, that took a lead in work towards prevention of the epidemics. In the times of Stanisław August Poniatowski the most important quarantine houses functioned in Mohylew, Bałta, Białogród, Żwaniec and Jampol.