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HALL OF THE TROPHIES
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Letter of Theodoros Kolokotronis to the Executive, on the topic of the appointment
of postmen in every province, to transfer the news to and from the Central Administration
(Saravali, 27 May 1822)
Archives of the Greek Regeneration, vol. 1, no 369 [p. 369] Library of the Hellenic Parliament
KEEPING THE CITIZENS INFORMED
and disseminating the decisions of the Central Revolu- tionary Administration to local populations, are issues
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that greatly concern those involved in public affairs, as these are considered to be a sine qua non requisite for the awakening and mobilization of the Greeks.
Document of the Executive on the topic of taking police measures for the prevention of the spread of the plague (Tripolis, 4 June 1823)
Archives of the Greek Regeneration, vol. 10, no 174 [p. 112] Library of the Hellenic Parliament
THE FREQUENT OCCURRENCE OF EPIDEMICS, due to the hygienic conditions of the time, resulted in losses of human life comparable to those in the battlefields. Characteristic examples are the typhus epidemic that afflicted first Tripolis and later on Nafplio and other cities that were under siege, the deaths out of dysentery in the besieged Missolonghi and the major outbreak of plague epi- demic in the spring of 1828, which Kapodistrias
faced with the help, among others, of the Swiss phil- hellene medical doctor Louis-André Gosse. The latter, having first studied the confirmed cases and reaching certain conclusions on the nature of the disease, took a series of preventive and therapeutic measures, such as cauterization of buboes, placement of the ill under the shadow of foliage, six metres away one from the other, burning of the dead’s clothes, cancellation of church services and closing of coffee shops.
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