Somogy megye múltjából - Levéltári évkönyv 24. (Kaposvár, 1993)

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in this period the population of the county was afflicted to the least degree by the plague compared to the other epidemics. This rare immunity stemmed from the characteristics of the infection, the unfrequent touch between the villages scattered in the forests, the swamps that expanded along the rivers and lakes and the military guard of the passable roads. The peril of the importation grew in the 18th century and several villages became infected, but it did not turn into an epidemic. The county archives have kept the medical documents of two villages that became infected this way. Through examining them, we can get an insight into the weaknesses of the protection, the methods of the folk selfprotection and the hopelessness of the cure. In 1740 the comitat had no other choice than set up the post of a chief doctor, which gave way to a more reliable health care and a better treatment for the patients.

Nagy Pál, The seals of market-towns and villages of Somogy county 1768-1856. (Second part. Bálványos-Büssü.) The author continued his work he began in 1992, and now he puts out 105 seal descriptions and 98 drawings of 28 settlements. Amongst the usual market-town and village seals, this time too, particularly numerous noble, ecclesiastic and civic loanseals can be found. The craft symbols of the seals of Basal, Belezna and Boglár are of particular interest.

The unusual form of authorization makes unique the Number 3 imprint of Böhönye. The Number 4 vine-growing village seal of Bükkösd should be particularly noted as well, which comes as a rarity in Somogy county despite the large number of hillsides full of vineyards. The study is again supplemented by a table of administration history abundant with data.

Kiss Z. Géza, Documents to the history of livestock trade along the Dráva. Contemporary observers and specialist writers know that the serfs of the domains on either side of the well-known border-river dealt with hog raising and selling. However, the people in these sources are not producers and fair traders, but they are the serfs of Ormánság who wanted to take advantage of the economic opportunities provided by the Napoleonic wars. In exchange for deposits, they collected the hogs in the area from Újvidék down to Bród-on-Száva. Passing through the market places of Somogy, they drove the purchased animals through Kanizsa to the Sloven, Austrian and Moravian markets. The published documents show the way of life, the selling-buying practise of the traders who paid the working capital through loans and the conditions of keeping the hogs.

Kaposi Zoltán, The growth of population and the peasants’ use of land in the domain of Vrászló in the first half of the 19th century. The study examines the population growth and the particular features of the use of land of the society on a big manor of 24,000 Hungarian holds (34,080 acres). On this big estate we can observe a relatively late settlement, in the first half of the 19th century the density of population was far behind the average in the country. Since the population was scarce and the manorial land was in plenty, a relatively various peasant use of land could develop, where besides the usual plot of land, the allodial peasant land leases and the land of industrial and common interest ensured the reproduction of the society. But the laws of the 1848 revolution gave only the usual plots of land into the peasants’ ownership and this caused serious problems to the society of the big manor of Vrászló.

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