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 XI. Work in the army

Collection:: Economics Books

WORK IN THE ARMY 205 the facilities were of the most rudimentary kind. A bathing station of the first type was established in Turkish Armenia at a distance of eighty miles from the Russian frontier, for which purpose the Seventh Detachment adapted a large, warm tent on the banks of the Euphrates. The tent was provided with eight shower baths, hot- water boilers, and a powerful pump. The whole equipment was srought on camel-back over difficult mountain passes. We also find reports of small bathing stations at places where the halt was of short duration. Thus, the Fifth Detachment reports that “the bath- ing station was set up in one of the peasant cottages, glass panes were replaced in the windows, the oven was rebuilt so as to hold the boiler which had been made out of an iron petrol barrel; buckets, lanterns, and a few other necessary articles were bought; yet the total cost of the whole equipment did not exceed the sum of 21 rubles. From April 1 to 29, 1915, during which time the detachment was stationed here, about 6,000 soldiers enjoyed the benefits of the bathing station.”*! Attached to these bathing stations there were invariably cleansing and disinfection chambers through which the clothing and under- wear of the soldiers were passed while they were taking their bath. Frequently the soldiers had no clean underwear and then it had to be supplied by the unions. Special laundries were organized to deal with the soiled underwear left behind. Clean underwear was sorted out: the badly worn garments were torn into pieces to serve as putties, while others were sent to the repair shops. In this way the supply of clean underwear was constantly renewed and whatever was missing was provided by the warehouses of the Zemstvo Union. [t was soon also found necessary to establish barbers’ shops in con- nection with the bathing stations. The Union had also to face the problem of repairing the soldiers’ boots, which were often in a bad state, and the result was that the first boot repair shops at the front were also due to the Union’s initiative. Other Activities of the Field Detachments. Dispensary work had been carried on from the outset on a very large scale, at first for the soldiers alone, later also for the local civilian population and refugees. In view of frequent applications ‘1 Ibid., No. 18, p. 83.

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