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 121 diseases; and from the publication of instructions for the improve- ment of the water supply in the rural districts and for the destruc- tion of insect pests that spread contagion to the actual organization of special epidemic detachments. We find some of the provinces (for instance, Voronezh) fully prepared to meet epidemics, while others did very little or practically nothing. There can be no doubt that the measures adopted by the zemstvos and towns were to the benefit of the population, for everything was cleaned up and put in order. However, these benefits were not everywhere commensurate with the expenditure incurred. Many of these measures, if they were to be properly carried out, would have required large expenditure and years of persistent effort; but when the funds devoted to them were so limited and everything was done in such a hurry, the results were bound to be insignificant. In one respect, however, the zemstvos undoubtedly met with suc- cess: with the funds allotted by the Government, they built hun- dreds of well-equipped isolation barracks intended to be used also in peace-time as part of a network of zemstvo hospitals to be further developed. It is to be regretted that government credits, as well as appropriations by the Zemstvo Union, often came only at the close of the building season (the appropriations of the Zemstvo Union were made only in August, 1915), and the buildings were erected too late. In many places they could not be completed until the sum- mer of 1916, and this only with heavy excess of expenditure over estimates, owing to the rising prices of materials and labor. Zemstvo Hospitals for Special Purposes: Lunatic Asylums. Already in July, 1914, that is even before the Zemstvo Union was organized, the Ministry of the Interior addressed a recommendation to the institutions of local government to provide a certain number of beds in their lunatic asylums for mentally deranged soldiers. The care of such patients en route from the front was left to the Red Cross Society. Early in the War the Russian Society of Psychi- atrists and Neuropathologists submitted to the Zemstvo Union an elaborate plan for the evacuation and treatment of such cases. It was proposed that this work should be united under the control of the unions. A carefully worked out estimate was also presented.

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