Russian local government during the war and the Union of Zemstvos

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Identifikator:: 1794855874

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-179223

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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 XI. Work in the army

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[96 THE ZEMSTVOS DURING THE WAR cent ; in the interior of the country (east of Moscow), 27.1 per cent. Later there were frequent changes in these proportions. When a complete set of fifty trains was finally provided, they contained 17,555 carriages, including 4 first-class, 20 mixed (first- and second-class), 58 second-class, 111 third-class, and 490 fourth- class carriages, besides 916 heated freight cars and 160 ordinary inheated cars. In the course of 1916 the Union of Zemstvos, at the special request of the military authorities, equipped twenty- six additional trains, so that in 1917 there were seventy-five zem- stvo hospital trains in operation. Of these, three were equipped with oathing facilities, disinfection chambers, and others appliances for the treatment and transport of contagious cases. Three trains were itted out at the expense of the Zemstvo Union for the disinfection and cleansing service, consisting of seven to nine carriages each; special carriages containing a bakery, an ice plant, and a dental hospital were also built. They were attached to the hospital trains »f the Union and sent wherever necessary. The exact number of sick and wounded men evacuated by the trains, as shown by the official records, is known only up to Janu- ary 1, 1917; by that time the fifty trains of the Union had made altogether 8,360 journeys and carried a total of 1,626,531 men." We have seen that the evacuation of the sick and wounded from the front during the ten months of 1917 previously mentioned pro- ceeded even more actively than during the period 1914-1916. At that time, seventy-five zemstvo trains, instead of the original fifty were in operation. However, even if we assume the average work Jone by the seventy-five trains during this period to have been no greater than that observed in 1914-1916, in other words, if we al- low for an average of 63,000 patients per month, we shall obtain for the ten months of 1917, 630,000 additional cases transported, making for the entire period of the War a grand total of 2,256,000. This figure is manifestly an underestimate. But even so it is more than one-half of the total number of sick and wounded soldiers svacuated from the front during the thirty-eight months of the War, namely 4,300,000. The conditions of the patients transported by the zemstvo hos- pital trains are known only for the first year of their operation and are as follows: seriously wounded, 13.9 per cent; lightly wounded, t Tavestia (Bulletin), Nos. 58-60, p. 81.

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