Russian local government during the war and the Union of Zemstvos

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Identifikator:: 1794855874

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-179223

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Polner, Tichon I. http://d-nb.info/gnd/172311195

Title:: Russian local government during the war and the Union of Zemstvos

Place of publication:: New Haven

Publisher:: Yale Univ. Press

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: XXV, 317 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter VI. Relief of sick and wounded soldiers

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CHAPTER VI RELIEF OF SICK AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS Evacuation. At the beginning of August, 1914, the War Department turned to the Zemstvo Union for assistance in the following task. The num- ber of sick and wounded soldiers expected each month was about 200,000. Their transport from the front was to be carried out by five clearing stations: Petrograd (60,000), Moscow (84,000), Kursk (8,000), Orel (24,000), and Kharkov (28,000). It was nec- essary to consider how the prompt distribution of evacuated men all over the country should be organized. At the end of August, the serious fighting in Galicia clearly demonstrated that there might be as many as 280,000 casualties a month requiring evacuation from the front. The plan of the Zemstvo Union, prepared in conformity with this request of the Ministry of War, was as follows: clearing hospitals were to be established in the above-named cities, in which the evacu- ated soldiers were to be classified and given the most indispensable medical aid. The stay of a patient at a clearing hospital was to last an average of three days and in no case more than ten. Allowing, for the sake of safety, for a maximum figure of ten, it was necessary to provide accommodation at the clearing hospitals for at least one- third of the total monthly quota of sick and wounded soldiers that might arrive at these points. From the hospitals they were to be transferred to the so-called “circuit” hospitals. The time allowed 2ach patient in such hospitals was about three weeks. This esti- mate determined the number of beds needed both at the clearing hos- pitals and in the “circuits,” that is to say, those provinces that were assigned to serve each clearing hospital.’ The military authorities thought themselves capable of assuming the whole burden of organizing the clearing hospitals, but were of opinion that in the “circuits” they would be able to maintain only part of the necessary hospital beds; all the rest were left to the care ‘ The Petrograd circuit comprised six provinces and Finland; the Mos- cow circuit, fifteen provinces; the Orel circuit, five; Kursk, two; Kharkov, two.

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