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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SICK AND WOUNDED treated at the hospitals of the front. The proportion, however, as between sick and wounded appears to be very different. Altogether, the Chief Medical Inspector has accounted for 2,650,817 sick sol- diers up to October, 1916, of whom 1,477,940, that is, 55.7 per cent, were evacuated to the interior and the remaining 44.3 per cent were left for treatment in the war zone. In the case of the wounded, however, it was otherwise. Here we find that, out of a total of 2,967,637, there were evacuated to the interior 2,474,935, that is, 83.3 per cent, leaving, consequently, for treatment at the front hos- pitals only 16.7 per cent. These ratios it is important to bear in mind, in comparing the number of sick and wounded cared for at the hospitals in the interior. 99 War-Time Hospitals. Altogether, the Zemstvo Union established 3,222 hospitals. A considerable number of these, namely 2,267, with a capacity of 134,994 beds, have been described in great detail by the evacuation department of the Central Committee.® This makes it possible for as to discuss certain features of their organization. The greatest activity in opening new hospitals falls within the first months of the War. In August, 1914, one-fifth of all hospitals were opened, in September, one-third, and in October, again, one- fifth. This feverish activity of the Zemstvo Union was frequently due to extreme urgency. Thus, for instance, on August 20 and 21, Just as the local committee of the Union had started the work of organizing hospitals, 3,000 wounded men arrived at Kaluga, and this not from Moscow, as had been expected, in accordance with the regular evacuation schedules, but direct from the army at the front. From Vladimir the chairman of the local committee wired to Moscow: “No vacant beds in Vladimir. Everything crowded. Not enough doctors. I request three days to provide accommodation for the wounded in the district.” From Ryazan the chairman of the provincial zemstvo board reported: “No beds vacant.” The frequently unforeseen arrival of patients, and the very pos- sibility of such unexpected arrivals, naturally tended to stimulate the zemstvo to abnormal efforts. It must be said, however, that even without this stimulus the work was everywhere done with extraor- * Isvestia (Bulletin) of the Central Committee, Nos. 25-26, pp. 85-88.

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