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 IX. Relief of refugees

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REFUGEES 163 there were over one hundred in existence, was nearly ten million. On the northwestern front there were established for the benefit of the refugees, as well as of the local population, 48 hospitals with 8,275 beds for infectious diseases, 117 dispensaries, 197 tea rooms, 9 children’s homes, 2 asylums for invalids, 4 disinfecting stations, 3 information bureaus, 2 clearing stations, 7 drug stores, 11 dental clinics, 18 night shelters, and 2 burial detachments.* The number of canteens fluctuated between 167 and 841 according to requirements. During the brief period October, 1915—J uly, 1916, the canteens provided refugees and the civilian population with 23,559,000 meals.” Those suffering from infectious diseases and registered at dispensaries attached to the ‘canteens, numbered 3,685, while a total of 10,176 were tended in the hospitals. In this way it was possible to isolate without delay a considerable number of acute cases, prin- cipally cholera and typhus. The Financial Problem. In the meantime large masses of refugees traveling in an easterly direction had made their appearance in the interior. Here, they found no organization whatever and there were no means of ar- ranging for their proper settlement in their new abodes. Nobody knew precisely how many refugees were bound for any given prov- ince and no one seemed to know whose business it was to look after them and where the means were to come from for that purpose. The zemstvos and local institutions of the Zemstvo Union asked the Cen- tral Committee for funds, and alarming telegrams arrived from a number of provinces, such as Penza, Tambov, Samara, Orel, Pol- tava, Ekaterinoslav, Vyatka, Orenburg, Simbirsk, and others. From some of the districts requests for funds were addressed to the Zem- stvo Union by the highest government officials, as for instance the Governor-General of Kiev, the Governor of Chernigov, and others. Up to August 10, the Central Committee transmitted nearly 500, 000 rubles to nine different committees, b :sides granting permission to fifteen other committees to spend on relief the loans that had been The exact figure is 9,868,287. Moreover 40,103 meals were served on Dnieper steamers, Isvestia (Bulletin), No. 47, p. 86. * Ibid., No. 28, p. 89. ' Ibid., No. 47, p. 101.

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