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 111 great importance. We find such details regarding various groups of patients scattered through the reports of zemstvo hospitals. The statistical bureau of the medical division of the Moscow pro- vincial zemstvo board made a study of different groups of soldiers undergoing treatment in the hospitals of Moscow province and promptly published the results. These data were issued with reserva- tions, and attention was called to the fact that other groups of pa- tients might yield different results. Still, the publications were of some benefit, as they stimulated the zemstvo physicians and sur- geons to furnish in their reports uniform data. They also showed the best methods of arranging these data, and they afforded some basis for an organization of the work of the Zemstvo Union. The first study of the zemstvo statistical bureau deals with condi- tions at the beginning of the War and covers 4.202 cases. Injuries to the upper extremities [says the report] form 52.3 per cent of all cases studied, while injuries to the lower extremities amount to 28 per cent; altogether this class of injuries accounts for 80.3 per cent. Next follow injuries to the skull, 5.8 per cent; the thorax, 4.2 per cent; the back, 4.8 per cent; the abdominal cavity, 1.4 per cent; the neck, 0.7 per cent; genital organs, 0.2 per cent. Among the injuries to the upper extremities the largest number (almost one-third) were found in the wrists and fingers, making up 81.8 per cent of the total; in juries to the shoulder and collarbone accounted for 8.8 per cent, and those of the forearm for 6.7 per cent. It should be noted here that in juries to the left side, both in the upper and lower extremities. were found to predominate consider- ably. Later (April, 1915), a similar investigation was made in 10,099 cases. On the whole, this confirmed the results of the first inquiry. At the beginning of November, 1915, the Central Committee of the Zemstvo Union opened a development for the relief of disabled soldiers, which tried on broad lines to classify the fundamental groups of the prospective beneficiaries according to the nature of the relief that would be required, namely medical relief (artificial 1% Izvestia (Bulletin), No. 11, pp- 56-57. ® Ibid., No. 16, p. 51.

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