SPANISH INFLUENZA PANDEMIC IN THE NORTHERN REGIONS OF THE KINGDOM OF HUNGARY IN 19181

The paper aims to summarize the impact of the Spanish influenza pandemic on the northern regions of the Kingdom of Hungary, today’s Slovakia. The main aim of the study is to compare two types of accessible epidemic data, the statistics prepared by the Hungarian city or county administration and the civil death records in the period between September and December 1918. In the first part of the paper, the historical context of the second wave and the issue of the anti-epidemic measures are discussed, while the second part is dedicated to the analysis of the pandemic data related to different regions of present-day Slovakia. It is argued that the partial data published below might offer a representative case study on the course of the pandemic and the number of fatalities in this specific region of the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.