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tients upon request and furnishes information concerning the most suit- 
able place for their further treatment. . . . 
Alongside the railroad platform, the zemstvo has erected two large, 
heated buildings which serve as an isolation hospital for men suspected 
of or actually suffering from infectious disease, as well as a rest-room 
for those to be entrained for other destinations or for those entering 
the clearing hospitals. They were also provided with a canteen and a 
dressing station.*® 
The patient usually stayed at the zemstvo hospitals long enough 
to be completely restored to health or until he was transferred to a 
special hospital if he needed special treatment. The original calcu- 
lations, as stated above, were based upon the assumption that the 
average stay of the patient at the hospital would be about three 
weeks. It appeared from experience that these computations were 
correct.’ This, of course, was not an absolute rule; on the contrary, 
very frequently the average stay of the patient is found to be much 
longer. Thus, at the zemstvo hospitals in the city of Tver, it was 
11.3 days; in the hospital at Eupatoria, 43.6 days; and at Orel, 
56.1 days. In the hospitals of the Moscow provincial committee of 
the Union, patients were kept even longer. 
The medical division of the provincial zemstvo board of Moscow 
carried out a further statistical analysis of the data regarding sick 
and wounded soldiers receiving treatment at the hospitals of the 
Zemstvo Union in the province of Moscow. This analysis furnished 
material for certain conclusions which were later used not only by 
the Zemstvo Union, but also by the Union of Towns. One of the first 
things worked out by this department was information regarding 
the transfer and discharge of sick and wounded soldiers from 
28 hospitals during the first few months of the War, totaling 4,430 
cases. The results obtained were as follows: 
By the end of the third month, 42.9 per cent had been evacuated 
from the hospitals by discharge, while 31.5 per cent were accounted 
1% Izvestia (Bulletin) of the Central Committee, No. 11, pp. 65-66. 
!* The average number of days spent by the patients in the hospitals was 
as follows: Rzhev, 21.2 days; Lebedin, 20; Chelyabinsk, 19.4; Smolensk, 
31.8; Astrakhan, 87.8; a computation based upon 24,000 cases gives the 
following averages: City of Kaluga, 29.1 days; Kazan province, 27.2; Orel 
province, 21.25; these data are taken from reports published in various is- 
sues of the Bulletin.