The Spread of Epidemics and the Social and Political Context of the Events of that Time in the Georgian Democratic Press of the Early 20th Century

Abstract

From the beginning of the 19th century to the first quarter of the 20th century, the Russian Empire was repeatedly struck by an outbreak of cholera, causing great damage to the population of Georgia. The event was being covered extensively by the Georgian press of that time. The newspapers covered the statistics of the epidemic. It is interesting to look at the situation caused by the pandemic as described in the press, to discover how the nature of the disease was studied and what measures were taken by the government to prevent the spread of the disease, to discover the decrees issued by the city self-government to stop the pandemic, the means used by the population to avoid being infected by the dangerous disease.