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Spanish flu and mental disorders in the Margraviate of Istria at the end of WWI

As in the most parts of Europe, Spanish flu with its mortality appeared in the south of the Magraviate of Istria in September of 1918, having the peak of the second wave in October and waning at the end of the December of 1918. The objective of this paper was to explore whether patients of Provincial hospital of Pula, were hospitalised and diagnosed with both Spanish flu and any mental illness, simultaneously or consequently. Hospital registers for the period 1918–1920 reveal no such cases. Lower relevance of mental disorders, administrative omission in diagnoses recording, higher level of diagnostical threshold for mental disorders, and somatisation of mental disorders could explain the lack of connectedness between the two types of illnesses.

Spanish flu 1918/1919, Pula, influenza virus, biopsychosocial model of health, mental illness, World War I

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