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purpose of the zemstvo hospitals, and also according to the season 
of the year. The greatest use was made of hospitals for special treat- 
ments, while the general hospitals were less crowded. During the 
first few months of the War about 50 per cent of the beds were un- 
occupied, although, of course, this does not preclude the possibility 
of hospitals in some localities having been fully occupied. Later the 
average percentage of beds occupied in the zemstvo hospitals 
throughout the country rose to 70 and in certain places to as much 
as 77 per cent.’ In the summer of 1916 the percentage rose to 85. 
Even in provinces as remote from the battlefields as Vyatka or Perm, 
where the average percentage of occupied beds usually fluctuated 
between 50 and 55, there were short periods during which all hos- 
pitals were crowded. 
® The following table may serve as an illustration: 
Percentage of Beds Occupied during the First Siz Months of the War. 
1914 October 1 
October 15 
November . 
December . 
December 1& 
1915 January 1 
January 15 
February 1 
Dates 
Number of beds 
89,241 
93,846 
103,621 
106,853 
111,702 
‘14,731 
127,991 
120.9901 
Occupied 
43,708 
47,838 
66,950 
74,970 
83,500 
83,458 
87,034 
80.654 
Percentage 
of occupation 
[9 
vl 
65 
70 
5 
73 
68 
62 
Percentage of Beds Occupied during the First Eleven Months of the War, 
in Nine Provinces. 
Number of Percentage of 
Province Number of beds occupied bed-days beds occupied 
Ekaterinoslav 5,016 831,596 
Kharkov 8,486 1,651,524 
Nizhni-Novgorod 3,307 194,198 
Novgorod 2,350 39° 16 
Petrograd 1,297 675, 56 
Tula 2,382 325 703 
Vologda 1,470 106,100 
Orel 6,591 802,588 
Terek Territory 5,427 261,378