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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119 By the end of the year 1915 the zemstvos had 189 isolation hos- pitals with 7,707 beds. In addition, other isolation hospitals with a total capacity of 5,207 beds were under construction in eleven prov- inces. During the first year of the War, that is, up to August 15, 1915, 15,325 cases of infectious diseases were registered at zemstvo hos- pitals; they were distributed as follows: typhus, 4,085; typhoid fever, 4,891; recurrent typhus, 2,184; diphtheria, 114; smallpox, 181; dysentery, 933; cholera, 99; anthrax, 5; erysipelas, 2,503; tetanus, 266; indeterminate typhus, 64. It should be noted here that these 15,325 cases amounted to only a little over 2 per cent of the total number of patients at the zem- stvo war hospitals. In some places this rate was somewhat higher, but only on rare occasions. We have seen that among the cases dis- charged from the zemstvo hospitals in the province of Moscow during December, 1915, and January, 1916, there were 2.94 per cent of epidemic cases. Earlier, for the first seven months of the War, the medical bureau of the Moscow provincial zemstvo board, after examining 85,584 registry cards, noted that “cases of acute contagious forms were rare and did not amount to 1 per cent of all admissions. Together with pulmonary consumption, syphilis and other venereal diseases the contagious diseases made up not more than 2.7 per cent of the total of all admission.” So far as it is possible to judge from the numerous reports pub- lished by medical organizations and institutions in the interior, the total number of contagious patients in those institutions never reached 10 per cent of all the patients, the proportion that the lemstvo Union had cautiously provided for in its original program, and not even 5 per cent. According to the reports of the Army Medical Board, which were published after the War by Dr. Avramov, the figures for cases of the main contagious diseases and acute scurvy among officers and men were as follows: SICK AND WOUNDED 25 Ibid., Nos. 22-23, p. 36. * Ibid., No. 10, p. 59

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