Russian local government during the war and the Union of Zemstvos

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Identifikator:: 1029903786

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-63471

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Lewiński, Jan S. http://d-nb.info/gnd/102701059

Title:: L'évolution industrielle de la Belgique

Place of publication:: Bruxelles

Publisher:: Misch & Thron, Éditeurs

Year of publication:: 1911

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 444 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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WORK IN THE ARMY cases, with a total capacity of 3,275 beds. In spite of all the diffi- culties which beset these institutions, they were able during the first nine months of their operation to take care of about 130,000 cases of infectious diseases registered at the isolation stations, whilst hos- pital cases, principally cholera and typhoid, accounted for 10,176 registrations. Practically the same development was noted by the medical institutions of the committee of the southwestern front. During the first few months following the great offensive of General Brusilov in Galicia, the Zemstvo Union was given charge of all local hospitals abandoned by the Austrians. These numbered 39 with 3,100 beds and splendid equipment. As part of the hospital staffs had remained on duty after the withdrawal of the Austrians, it was necessary merely to complete them, to provide the hospitals with medical supplies and funds, and reopen them for the benefit of the local population. The Zemstvo Union decided to reopen 30 of these hospitals with a total capacity of 2,500 beds, of which 250 were set aside for infectious cases. This seemed the more urgent since cholera and typhus were spreading rapidly in Galicia even among the troops. After the retreat of the Russians from Galicia most of these hospitals were naturally lost again, and the committee of the south- western front was compelled to organize medical relief exclusively with its own means. The committee also found it necessary to extend its work from the war zone to several provinces in the immediate rear, notably those of Podolia and Kiev. The medical organizations of the Union’s committees of the front concentrated under their control not only the work of protecting the health of the army against infection from without, but they also served the needs of the army itself. The medical undertakings de- scribed in the present account of the work of the field detachments were expanded and improved by the medical bureaus which were appointed by the Union’s committees of the front in J anuary, 1915.** Assisted by a whole network of institutions of their own, the bureaus took care of all cases of infectious diseases whether among the civilian population or in the army and sent them to isolation hospitals. The majority of field detachments were supplied by the medical bureaus with special means of transport, so as to keep in- fectious cases in strict isolation en route from the front to the rear. '* They were modeled on the medical bureaus of the provincial zemstvos and were concerned with measures for the prevention of epideniics, 213

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