Report of the Royal Commission on National Health Insurance

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Identifikator:: 1740277147

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-132094

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report of the Royal Commission on National Health Insurance

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stationery Office

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: XII, 394 S.

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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SICK AND WOUNDED 97 Union was now given permission to use these for its new hospitals. In the second place, permission was given at the beginning of May to send convalescent soldiers to their homes on short furloughs. The latter measure, no doubt, involved a good deal of additional trouble. The exact terms of these furloughs were not known on the spot, so that the hospitals were unable to tell precisely what class of patients would be entitled to them, for how long, and who should provide the men with transport, clothing, and money. To clear up these ques- tions, the Zemstvo Union negotiated with the military authorities, and assumed a number of obligations in connection with furloughs for all those whose state of health permitted of their discharge from hospital. In July, 1916, all formal and technical difficulties were at last removed. The extensive application of this measure made avail- able a large number of hospital beds and enabled the Zemstvo Union to discharge its duties in this connection successfully during the ex- ceedingly difficult period of the summer of 1916. A Statistical Illustration. In 1920 a “Commission for the Investigation of the Effects on Public Health of the War of 1914-1920” was formed at Moscow, composed of medical men and statisticians. This commission in 1923 published its first report. The volume discusses the question of the composition and casualties of the Russian army in the World War. The investigation is far from complete, and the vast array of fig- ares that the volume contains represents merely a preliminary sum- mary of official data, many of which are conflicting. The work on the army archives and card indexes has only begun. Nevertheless, even these preliminary figures permit us to perceive the general trend of a very large number of interesting phenomena in this field ; we find among these figures some referring to the evacuation of the sick and wounded. According to reports of the general staff and General Headquarters up to October, 1917, that is, for the thirty- eight months of Russia’s participation in the War, the total number of evacuations to the interior of the country was 1,425,000 sick and 2,875,000 wounded. This makes a total of 4,300,000 men, or an average of 113,157 per month for the entire period. This move- ® Trudi (Report) of the Commission for the Investigation of the Effects on Public Health of the War of 1914-1920, Moscow, 1923.

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