Russian local government during the war and the Union of Zemstvos

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Identifikator:: 1794855874

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-179223

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Polner, Tichon I. http://d-nb.info/gnd/172311195

Title:: Russian local government during the war and the Union of Zemstvos

Place of publication:: New Haven

Publisher:: Yale Univ. Press

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: XXV, 317 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter VI. Relief of sick and wounded soldiers

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SICK AND WOUNDED 95 ously two offensives of the Russian armies—at Czernovitsy and Erzerum. Kharkov and Tiflis were the only points which now felt the increased stream of casualties, and the Tiflis clearing hospital was at this time subjected to the strain of an unprecedented number of sick rather than of wounded.? In February, 1916, it was decided to launch a partial offensive in the region of Lake Naroch. The immediate rear, as has been stated previously, had been deprived of some of the large hospitals, evacu- ated to the interior during the last great retreat. In view of the ex- pected renewed influx of large numbers of sick and wounded, it was proposed to the Zemstvo Union that it should equip all along the front a number of receiving stations. This order was executed within one month, and huts accommodating 40,000 patients were soon erected on the northern and western fronts. Notwithstanding these preparations, the evacuation of casualties during the spring battles of 1916 did not proceed very smoothly. The question was again raised of bringing about better coordina- tion between the evacuation at the front and in the rear. The move- ment of the sick and wounded from the clearing hospitals was being carried out with more or less order and system because the two un- ions, having at their disposal telegraphic information as to the num- ber of vacant beds in the hospitals of the interior, were able promptly to overcome difficulties that might accidentally arise. But the Zemstvo Union had no influence whatever over the evacuation from the front to the clearing hospitals, and all its efforts to establish some kind of a working agreement with the evacuation authorities at the front were invariably defeated. In the meantime, the administration of military communications at the front paid not the slightest attention to the capacity of the clearing hospitals, but merely reckoned with the number of trains that might be dis- patched to those points. In particular, in the spring of 1916, they ordered the dispatch of six trains a day to Orel, nine to Petrograd, and only five to Moscow, whereas the relative capacity of these clearing stations was altogether different. At conferences held in the beginning of May, 1916, the two Un- ions again urged upon the authorities the need of increasing the ac- commodation in the hospitals of the interior, in view of the expected * Izvestia (Bulletin) of the Central Committee, Nos. 37-38, pp. 26-29.

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