Xiv THE ZEMSTVOS DURING THE WAR
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The Legal Situation. Organization and Scope of Work. Nature
of Relief. Relief of Orphans.
Chapter VIII. Assistance to Farming . .
Difficulties of the Problem. Public Initiative. Effects of the War
on Peasant Farming. Relief of Peasant Farmers. Student Farm-Labor
 Squads. Prisoners of War. Other Sources of Labor.
Agricultural Machinery and Implements. The Peasant Woman.
The Economic Section of the Central Committee.

Chapter IX. Relief of Refugees . . . :
First Measures. Organization of Relief Work. Relief in the
Front Area. The Financial Problem. Organization Proposed by
the Union of Zemstvos and the Special Council. A Statistical
Analysis of the Refugee Movement. Settlement of Refugees. Interference
 of the Government.
Chapter X. Participation of the Zemstvos in the Work of Supply
Rise in Prices. Shortage of Foodstuffs. Measures Taken by the
Zemstvos. F inancing Operations of Supply. Participation in the
Provisioning of the Army. Army Equipment.

Chapter XI. Work in the Army . . .
Hospital Trains: Organization. Supply of Hospital Trains. Nature
 of Work. Scope of Work. The Hospital Trains and their
Patients. The Hospital Trains and the Government. Field Detachments:
 Organization and Purpose. Bathing Stations. Other
Activities of the Field Detachments. Distribution of Field Detachments.
 Combating Epidemic Diseases. New Field Hospitals.
Dental Hospitals. Bathing Stations and Laundries. Canteens.
Zemstvo Retail Stores. Depots and Transport of Goods. The
Auxiliary Institutions of the Union. The Organization of the
Union at the Front.

Chapter XII. The Central Committee of the Union of Zemstvos
in the Third Year of the War . ‘ ‘ .
The Organization of Supply. Supply of Leather and Hides.
Factories and Workshops. Purchase of Horses. Automobile Service.
 Relief of Prisoners of War. Measures against Poison Gas.
The Finance and Audit Departments. The Legal Problem. Conclusion.


Chapter XIII. The Joint Committee of the Unions of Zemstvos
and of Towns for the Supply of Military Equipment and
Munitions  . . . . . . . vo
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