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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Lo) THE ZEMSTVOS DURING THE WAR Number of Cases of Infectious Diseases in the Army. Recur- Typhoid rent Dysen- Small- fever Typhus typhus tery Cholera pox Periods {August-December) 1914 1915 1916 (January-September) 1917 Scurvy 13,988 271 35 7,581 8,758 3802 90 56,583 4,827 4,333 14,251 20,589 1,286 770 19.406 7.725 27.958 26,722 1,343 743 178.250 7,650 8,270 43,103 15,760 120 377 283,646 Total 97.522 21,098 75,429 64,264 30,810 2,708 862,756 In addition, 188,241 scurvy patients received treatment at the dis- pensaries attached to their regiments.” Even if we disregard the scurvy cases, these figures will be found less favorable than those of the ratios indicated in hospital reports from the interior of the country. But we must remember that a large proportion of the sick, namely, 44.8 per cent remained in the war zone, whereas 83.3 per cent of the wounded were evacuated to the interior. It is natural, therefore, that the sick, including cases of infectious diseases, should have constituted in hospitals in the in- terior, a smaller percentage than in all the military hospitals of the country, both at the front and in the interior, taken together. However, even the figures mentioned above have been considered by competent observers to be comparatively favorable. In any case, the policy of the Minister of the Interior in the matter of combating epidemics led to no tragic results.” It did, however, lead to extraor- dinary diversity in the steps taken by the zemstvos, producing a lack of cobrdination, unnecessary expenditure, and at times also un- warranted measures. In each province, and often in each district, large conferences would be held which decided matters as they saw fit. The reports of local committees present a picture of the most bewildering variety of anti-epidemic measures, from the construc- tion of quite substantial buildings for isolation hospitals to the distribution of literature about the best means of combating the 27 Trudi (Proceedings) of the Commission for the Investigation of the Effects on Public Health of the War of 1914-1920, Moscow, 1923, p. 176. 28 Jawestia (Bulletin), No. 10, p. 59.

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