Russian local government during the war and the Union of Zemstvos

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Identifikator:: 1824422792

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217476

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Study week on the econometric approach to development planning

Place of publication:: Amsterdam [u.a.]

Publisher:: North-Holland Publ. Co. [u.a.]

Year of publication:: 1965

Scope:: XLVII, 1259 S.; graph. Darst.

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: On the concept of optimal economic growth / Tjalling C. Koopmans, Cowles Foundation for research in Econimics at Yale University New Haven, Conn. - U.S.A.

Collection:: Economics Books

127 the internal organs not subject to cure by local means (diseases of the stomach, intestines, liver, and kidneys); (2) cases of acute undernourishment and anaemia resulting from infections, serious injury, and gas poisoning; and (3) patients afflicted with trau- matic neuroses, diseases of the spine and the peripheral nervous system. To the mud baths were being sent patients suffering from chronic liseases of the joints, osteo-muscular organs, and glands. A very large number of patients were in need of balneological and mud bath treatment. After having been prevented from working until the latter half of the 1915 season, the unions very soon filled most of the sanatoriums that had until then stood idle. It was evi- dent, however, that the available accommodation would prove inade- quate if a proper system of selection and evacuation of patients were in operation. Vigorous measures were then taken to adapt some of the mineral springs and mud baths for winter treatment and to en- large their capacity by at least five hundred beds in preparation for the summer season of 1916.34 SICK AND WOUNDED Relief for Disabled Soldiers. According to certain calculations, of a somewhat rough charac- ter, the number of disabled Russian soldiers was about 600,000. Under the law of June 25, 1912, they were entitled to a pension ranging from 80 rubles to 259 rubles a year, according to the de- gree of disability. However, neither this pension nor the bonuses allowed by the law and ranging from ten to forty rubles could assure to the invalids even the most modest livelihood. The Zemstvo Union, both for hu- manitarian and practical reasons found it impossible to ignore this problem, for the invalids continually accumulated in the zemstvo hospitals, occupying beds that might be required for other patients. The Central Committee laid before the conference of zemstvo dele- gates on March 12-18, 1915, the question of relief of disabled soldiers. The conference unanimously resolved “to recognize the de- sirability of the constant participation of the Zemstvo Union in the task of caring for disabled soldiers, and to instruct the Central * Izvestia (Bulletin), Nos. 22-23, pp. 52-63.

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