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These figures, in their details, may give a purely accidental view
of the distribution of injuries and diseases. Other groups of patients
might have presented a different picture. More interesting are the
conclusions of the medical officers, based upon the data concerning
these 4,000 cases, as regards the degree of disablement of the discharged
 patients and their need of further treatment.
Of the total number of men discharged from the hospitals 44.5
per cent were registered as able-bodied, and of these, 34.8 per cent
were fully restored to health.
Those partly disabled made up 52 per cent of the total and 32.4
per cent of these gave promise of full recovery. On the whole, the first
two groups, that is able-bodied men and men on their way to complete
 recovery, formed 76.9 per cent (44.5 and 82.4 per cent) of
the total number of discharges; 19.6 per cent were partly disabled
and had no hope of a complete restoration to health; 8.1 per cent of
the men discharged were completely disabled. These included 1.8
per cent of incurable invalids.
Nearly one-half of all the discharges (48.8 per cent) required
further treatment, either general or special. General methods of dispensary
 or hospital treatment (therapeutical and surgical) were required
 in 18 per cent of all discharged men. Special treatment was
needed by not less than 80 per cent; it included physico-orthopedic
treatment for 20 per cent, sanatorium treatment for 5 per cent, and
balneological treatment for 4 per cent.
Non-medical relief in the form of homes and asylums for the disabled,
 instruction in handicrafts, etec., would probably be required
by 15 per cent of all discharges, of whom about 2 per cent were incurables.
 The requirement in artificial limbs would be about 2 per
cent of all cases.'®

The Campaign against Epidemic Diseases.”
In the list given above, epidemic diseases occupy a very modest
place, accounting for only about 8 per cent of the total number of

18 Jewestia (Bulletin), No. 84, pp. 47-60.
19 Concerning the share of the Union of Towns in the fight against epidemic
 diseases, see Astrov, The Effects of the War upon Russian Munictpalities
 and the All-Russian Union of Towns, Chapter X, in the volume
The War and the Russian Government (Yale University Press, 1929) in this
series of the Economic and Social History of the World War.