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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124 THE ZEMSTVOS DURING THE WAR tary hospitals, and 112 from all others. The largest number of pa- tients were suffering from injuries to the peripheral nervous sys- tem; next came those suffering from traumatic neuroses, and from wounds of the central nervous system (the brain and the spine), and finally there were cases of general nervous disorders, such as gen- eral neuroses, organic diseases of the brain and spine and of the peripheral nervous system. The overwhelming majority of patients were discharged benefited by the treatment (373), a considerable proportion were completely cured, and only 41 cases showed no improvement. Treatment for Tuberculosis. The percentage of soldiers afflicted with tuberculosis ranged be- tween 2 and 5 per cent of the total of all the sick and wounded sol- diers. It was readily conceded that the presence of tuberculosis patients in the general hospitals was a source of danger to the others, not to mention the fact that it could not possibly benefit the sufferers themselves, who were in need of special treatment and dif- ferent care and diet. This is why, on the initiative of the medical au- thorities of the Zemstvo Union, conferences were called as early as December, 1914, to discuss problems of treatment for tubercular patients. At the same time, practical work in the isolation of tuber- culosis cases was being actively carried on by many of the zemstvos. Thus, the Moscow provincial zemstvo committee opened on the out- skirts of Moscow a sanatorium for tuberculosis and proceeded to open similar institutions at various other places in the province. Similarly, we find a great deal of care and attention given to this problem in the reports of the committees from Kharkov, Penza, Nizhni-Novgorod, Tver, and elsewhere. The Central Committee, for its own part, refused to wait for any general solution of the prob- lem and proceeded forthwith to take over at its own expense the maintenance of a considerable number of sanatorium beds equipped by the Yalta committee on the southern shore of the Crimea. The whole question was discussed in all its aspects at a confer- ence for combating infectious diseases which met on April 29 and May 1, 1915, on the initiative of the Central Committees of the Unions of Zemstvos and of Towns. 81 Jzvestia (Bulletin), No. 27, pp. 150-155.

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