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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114 THE ZEMSTVOS DURING THE WAR These figures, in their details, may give a purely accidental view of the distribution of injuries and diseases. Other groups of patients might have presented a different picture. More interesting are the conclusions of the medical officers, based upon the data concerning these 4,000 cases, as regards the degree of disablement of the dis- charged patients and their need of further treatment. Of the total number of men discharged from the hospitals 44.5 per cent were registered as able-bodied, and of these, 34.8 per cent were fully restored to health. Those partly disabled made up 52 per cent of the total and 32.4 per cent of these gave promise of full recovery. On the whole, the first two groups, that is able-bodied men and men on their way to com- plete recovery, formed 76.9 per cent (44.5 and 82.4 per cent) of the total number of discharges; 19.6 per cent were partly disabled and had no hope of a complete restoration to health; 8.1 per cent of the men discharged were completely disabled. These included 1.8 per cent of incurable invalids. Nearly one-half of all the discharges (48.8 per cent) required further treatment, either general or special. General methods of dis- pensary or hospital treatment (therapeutical and surgical) were re- quired in 18 per cent of all discharged men. Special treatment was needed by not less than 80 per cent; it included physico-orthopedic treatment for 20 per cent, sanatorium treatment for 5 per cent, and balneological treatment for 4 per cent. Non-medical relief in the form of homes and asylums for the dis- abled, instruction in handicrafts, etec., would probably be required by 15 per cent of all discharges, of whom about 2 per cent were in- curables. The requirement in artificial limbs would be about 2 per cent of all cases.'® The Campaign against Epidemic Diseases.” In the list given above, epidemic diseases occupy a very modest place, accounting for only about 8 per cent of the total number of 18 Jewestia (Bulletin), No. 84, pp. 47-60. 19 Concerning the share of the Union of Towns in the fight against epi- demic diseases, see Astrov, The Effects of the War upon Russian Munict- palities and the All-Russian Union of Towns, Chapter X, in the volume The War and the Russian Government (Yale University Press, 1929) in this series of the Economic and Social History of the World War.

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