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 107 tients upon request and furnishes information concerning the most suit- able place for their further treatment. . . . Alongside the railroad platform, the zemstvo has erected two large, heated buildings which serve as an isolation hospital for men suspected of or actually suffering from infectious disease, as well as a rest-room for those to be entrained for other destinations or for those entering the clearing hospitals. They were also provided with a canteen and a dressing station.*® The patient usually stayed at the zemstvo hospitals long enough to be completely restored to health or until he was transferred to a special hospital if he needed special treatment. The original calcu- lations, as stated above, were based upon the assumption that the average stay of the patient at the hospital would be about three weeks. It appeared from experience that these computations were correct.’ This, of course, was not an absolute rule; on the contrary, very frequently the average stay of the patient is found to be much longer. Thus, at the zemstvo hospitals in the city of Tver, it was 11.3 days; in the hospital at Eupatoria, 43.6 days; and at Orel, 56.1 days. In the hospitals of the Moscow provincial committee of the Union, patients were kept even longer. The medical division of the provincial zemstvo board of Moscow carried out a further statistical analysis of the data regarding sick and wounded soldiers receiving treatment at the hospitals of the Zemstvo Union in the province of Moscow. This analysis furnished material for certain conclusions which were later used not only by the Zemstvo Union, but also by the Union of Towns. One of the first things worked out by this department was information regarding the transfer and discharge of sick and wounded soldiers from 28 hospitals during the first few months of the War, totaling 4,430 cases. The results obtained were as follows: By the end of the third month, 42.9 per cent had been evacuated from the hospitals by discharge, while 31.5 per cent were accounted 1% Izvestia (Bulletin) of the Central Committee, No. 11, pp. 65-66. !* The average number of days spent by the patients in the hospitals was as follows: Rzhev, 21.2 days; Lebedin, 20; Chelyabinsk, 19.4; Smolensk, 31.8; Astrakhan, 87.8; a computation based upon 24,000 cases gives the following averages: City of Kaluga, 29.1 days; Kazan province, 27.2; Orel province, 21.25; these data are taken from reports published in various is- sues of the Bulletin.

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