Russian local government during the war and the Union of Zemstvos

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Identifikator:: 1831622599

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Title:: The story of Pittsburgh

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1919-1930

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831623145

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Title:: Electrical appliances

Volume count:: Vol. 1, nr.6

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1921

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Title:: The Westinghouse Union Battery Company

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200 THE ZEMSTVOS DURING THE WAR and female trained nurses. It took with it a complete outfit for a hospital of one hundred beds, together with five tents, two motor lorries, one passenger automobile, and fourteen wagons with the re- quired number of horses. The whole equipment cost less than 40,000 rubles. However, it was found at the outset that this organization suf- fered from certain defects. The detachment was expected to follow zlosely the advancing armies, and to be in a position both to unpack and to pack up promptly. Having no permanent base, in view of the constantly shifting front lines, the detachment was compelled to sarry with it all its heavy equipment, and for this neither the staff nor the transport facilities of the detachment had been prepared. At the same time, the zemstvo representatives who had succeeded in making their way to the war zone, received from all directions re- quests that they should assist the army hospital department in look- ing after the wounded, pending their transfer to hospitals. Large aumbers of wounded, after being given a makeshift dressing, were being painfully transported on jolting two-wheeled vehicles, while sthers failed altogether to reach the regimental ambulances, and were compelled to drag themselves along on foot, often arriving at the hospitals in a terrible condition. To pick up these casualties in the trenches, often under the fire >f the enemy; to send them to the rear in comfortable carriages; to dress their wounds and, in urgent cases, to perform operations at the field hospitals; to change their clothing and to feed and trans- fer them to the rear hospitals situated twelve or fifteen miles behind the front lines—these were some of the tasks which the zemstvo field Jetachment was asked to undertake. It is obvious that the equipment of these field detachments had to be of a very special character. During the Japanese War a few Red Cross detachments had been fitted out for this purpose but their equipment and maintenance had proved very expensive; as they were inactive during the long inter- rals between battles, their usefulness had been considerably im- paired. In spite of these experiences in the past,—experiences that were anything but calculated to encourage repetition,—the Zemstvo Un- ion did not consider itself justified in shirking this urgent prob- lem. It set to work to introduce considerable changes in the organi- sation of all the detachments subsequently formed, especially in that

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