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 109 terrupted day and night watches at the hospitals, in the kitchens, and supervised the diet of the patients. These women’s committees also collected donations for their charges, supplied them with to- bacco, writing paper, notebooks, and other stationery and, upon discharge from the hospital, furnished them with underwear and warm clothing. The ladies on duty would read books and papers to the soldiers, write their letters to friends and relatives, arrange con- certs for the convalescents, show motion pictures, and so on. The zemstvos, for their own part, saw to it that the idle hours of the pa- tients should be usefully occupied; those who wished could receive instruction in various handicrafts and were enabled to attend lec- tures on general educational subjects. In some instances courses were arranged for the convalescents. Thus, the provincial zemstvo of Perm arranged in its hospitals regular courses of instruction in agriculture suitable to the northern sections of the country, and these courses, including regular discussions with expert agronomists, proved highly successful among the wounded and sick soldiers, with the result that the number of students quickly increased. The cost of maintenance of a patient varied greatly according to time and place. During the second year of the War, but more so during the third, when there was a heavy depreciation of the ruble currency coupled with increasing difficulties in the food supply, the maintenance cost of the hospitals continually rose higher and higher, Increasing by 50 to 75 per cent in some places, as compared with the original cost. In its initial estimates submitted to the Government, the Zemstvo Union allowed for modest but seemingly adequate appropriations. The Government undertook to defray the expense of maintaining the sick and wounded in the zemstvo hospitals according to the fol- lowing scale: for each occupied bed per day, 1.08 rubles (for food, ¥2 copecks; cooking the food, 2.67 copecks; heat, 4 copecks; light, I copeck; medical supplies, 80 copecks; service, 28 copecks). The cost of an unoccupied bed, per day, was set at 40 copecks.** During *4 It is interesting to compare these estimates with the actual figures given for the hospitals in the city of Vyazma, province of Smolensk, during the first half of the campaign. We find here that the cost of treatment of a pa- tient per day was: upkeep of buildings, 18.99 copecks (8.53 per cent of the total expense); wages, salaries, food and quarters of staffs, 86.85 copecks

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