Kritische Geschichte der Nationalökonomie und des Socialismus

Russian local government during the war and the Union of Zemstvos

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Identifikator:: 83457490X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-77841

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Dühring, Eugen http://d-nb.info/gnd/118527797

Title:: Kritische Geschichte der Nationalökonomie und des Socialismus

Edition:: 2., theilw. umgearb. Aufl.

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Grieben

Year of publication:: 1875

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, [1] Bl., 595 S.)

Collection:: Economics Books

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132 THE ZEMSTVOS DURING THE WAR dea of opening its own workshop for artificial limbs in 1914, that 1s to say at a time when the workshop of the Empress Marie Institute at Petrograd was the only one in the whole of Russia. At first such intentions were met with obstacles of a purely formal -haracter, and it was only on February 20, 1915, that it was found possible to open a small workshop in Kharkov. This was to be capable of supplying about one hundred artificial limbs a month, which was about the same number as that turned out by the Em- press Marie Institute. The initial expense was calculated at 13,500 rubles, and the monthly cost at 6,740 rubles. The workshop was maintained with the funds of the Union of Zemstvos. To find skilled workmen proved somewhat difficult, and men had to be specially irained to undertake the work. By September 1, 1915, fifty men were already employed and the plant was working at full capacity. During the first two and a half months 464 artificial limbs were oroduced and 188 invalids were fitted. On September 22 of the same gear a temporary home for the disabled was opened in connection with this workshop, which gave shelter to 137 men in the course of ‘he two months that they had to wait for the limbs to be ready. In Saratov a workshop for artificial limbs was opened in May, 1916, with funds supplied by the Central Committee of the Zemstvo Un- ion. The Saratov Committee of the Union was able to come to an agreement with the local Committee of the Grand Duchess Elizabeth. The two institutions organized a medical commission of professors »f the local university and zemstvo doctors, with the participation of military authorities. It decided on the type of artificial limbs to be used, gave orders for their manufacture, and received them from the workshop. The limbs thus obtained were paid for by the military authorities. In Moscow province the yearly requirement in artificial imbs at zemstvo hospitals was estimated to be six hundred. It was proposed to manufacture this number at the expense of the zemstvo ‘n three different localities in the province. After December, 1915, a workshop was in operation at Rostov-on-Don, which was maintained at the expense of the Union. All these workshops of the Union were Jesigned to meet purely local requirements, and it was not proposed to extend the organization to the whole country. A similarly local and casual character may be observed in the vork of those institutions for the disabled of which mention is made

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