Proposed new customs tariff

Russian local government during the war and the Union of Zemstvos

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Identifikator:: 1016540337

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-79957

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Proposed new customs tariff

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Printed under the authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office by Darling and Son, Limited

Year of publication:: 1914

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (IV, 110 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Section 5. Industrial, oils, vanishes, and blacking, combustible materials, and paints

Collection:: Economics Books

SICK AND WOUNDED 131 Nevertheless it was found impossible to initiate joint action satis- factorily. In order to draw up the estimates for the institutions most urgently required, it was important to know the number of the lisabled men in each group. The Union, therefore, decided to take a census of the disabled soldiers with the aid of its local organs, and applied for the necessary funds to the Special Committee. The lat- ter, however, intended to take such a census on its own account and refused to grant the necessary funds, with the result that the pro- posed census was never taken. How slowly the needs of the war invalids were being attended to oy the bureaucratic institutions may be seen from the manner in which the supply of artificial limbs was dealt with. Under the law, every disabled soldier was entitled to be provided with any artificial limb that he required. There were only three institutions in the whole of Russia that could manufacture such limbs: the Institute of the Empress Marie at Petrograd, the Committee of the Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna at Moscow, and the Committee of the Grand Duchesses Militsa and Anastasia at Kiev. Under the most favorable conditions, however, these three institutions were able to satisfy not more than one-twelfth of the yearly supply that was found to be required during the War. Invalids would thus be com- pelled to wait their turn for long periods, which might run in cer- lain cases to twelve years. Yet these three institutions in fact alone enjoyed those special privileges without which it was impossible to furnish artificial limbs to discharged soldiers; that is to say, they alone had the right to request the local military commanders to send the invalids at government expense to the nearest workshops for artificial limbs; they alone were entitled to obtain parts of arti- cial limbs from the government factor at Petrograd; and to them alone was the Ministry of War permitted to make payments for artificial limbs furnished according to a definite scale. In spite of the difficulties above mentioned, something was never- theless accomplished in this matter by the zemstvos. Thus, the pro- vincial zemstvo assembly of Voronezh as early as the end of 1914 placed 30,000 rubles at the disposal of the zemstvo board for the relief of disabled soldiers, but especially for the supply of artificial limbs to them. Later on, the same zemstvo opened a small workshop for this purpose. The Kharkov zemstvo had likewise conceived the

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