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 The recommendations of this conference were adopted by the Central Committees of both unions. At Moscow, a joint committee on sanatoriums and health resorts was created, which was charged with the duty of putting the plan adopted into effect. It was found necessary to open hospitals of two different types for tuberculosis patients under the auspices of the provincial committees, as follows: (1) sanatoriums for tuberculosis patients amenable to improvement under ordinary sanatorium treatment and under climatic condi- tions as they might exist locally; and (2) special hospitals, or asylums, for the isolation of chronic and acute cases who could not obtain adequate treatment and isolation at their homes. Patients requiring treatment at spas were dealt with by a com- mittee in Moscow or by its branch attached to the Kharkov com- mittee of the Zemstvo Union. The Moscow committee was composed of representatives of both unions, of the Army Medical Depart- ment, and of the Red Cross Society. It took charge of all beds for tuberculosis patients. The medical officers of the two unions would prepare lists of tubercular patients needing treatment at health re- sorts and forward the medical histories of such cases, written on spe- cial forms, either to Moscow (for twenty-eight provinces) or to Kharkov (thirteen provinces). The history of each case would be carefully gone into by specialists, and the patients summoned by the committee, examined, and sent on to their destination. By August, 1915, the Moscow committee had at its disposal 2,241 tuberculosis beds, of which 1,129 were maintained by the Union of Zemstvos and 1,112 by the Union of Towns. Of this number, 1,098 (715, Union of Zemstvos; and 883, Union of Towns) were in sana- toriums at health resorts.®? The total, of course, was quite inade- quate and was being systematically enlarged by both unions, so that by March, 1916, the Zemstvo Union alone already had at its dis- posal 3,391 beds for tuberculosis patients, including 1,162 beds in the Crimea. 3? 125 Spas. The problem of the organization of special hospitals for balneo- physicotherapeutic treatment arose in the Zemstvo Union as early as the close of 1914. However, the whole problem of using Russian 32 Ibid., No. 21, pp. 12-27. 83 Ibid., Nos. 85-36, p. 97.

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