FAMILIES OF MOBILIZED MEN : 137
relief either by lending agricultural machines and implements from
their warehouses, or by organizing the sale of fodder, seeds, and
articles of prime necessity at cost prices, or, lastly, by granting
credits for such purposes to the codperative societies. Seven district
zemstvo assemblies appropriated for general war necessities, including
the relief of soldiers’ families, the sum of 209,000 rubles. Four
district assemblies decided, in principle, to come to the relief of such
families without fixing the total amount of their appropriations,
while fifty-nine zemstvos allotted for the same purpose a total of
710,000 rubles. Of this sum, 140,500 rubles was allowed for general
relief of soldiers’ families without specification. The remaining 569,
500 rubles was allocated as follows:
District Zemstvos’ Appropriations for the Relief of Families of
Mobilized Men at the Outbreak of the War.
Nature of expenditure
Supplementary to government allowances
Relief in cases not provided for by the law
Maintenance of the farm (assistance in harvest
work, loans for agricultural needs, subsidies to
farming organizations which undertook to cultivate
the land of mobilized men, and supplying
seeds where urgently needed)
Fuel, housing, etc.
Care of orphans (the opening of asylums and
homes, the grant of scholarships at agricultural
and other schools, clothing, etc.)
Sundry (free medical help, support of victims of
natural calamities, etc.)
Investigation of conditions of families of mobilized
men and office expenses
Total
Rubles Percentage
53,500 9.8
166,500 29.2
290,000
11,000
50.9
2.0
23,000
“n-27.
(+
.8
560.500
100
The grand total of funds appropriated by the provincial zemstvos
for the relief of the families of mobilized men, and for the care
of war orphans, during the first year of the War, was 6,280,304
rubles, while the total appropriations of the district zemstvos for
the same period were 4,446,076 rubles.’
* Isvestia (Bulletin), No. 10, pp. 51-52.
5 The latter figure is for only 812 out of 427 districts.
