SOCIOLOGICAL - PUBLIC HEALTH

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600220104-2
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 104
• Publication Date: April 11, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIF ,TiON
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY WSW
SUBJECT Sociological - Public health
HOW
PUBLISHED Weekly- newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Moscow
DATE
PUBLISHED 9 Mar 1949
LANGUAGE
Raee.lav
REPORT
CD NO,
DATE OF
DATC DIST. /?hpw 1949
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO,
SOURCE ItrditsiasH7 Habotnik, No l0-822, 1949. (Information requested.)
USSR MEDICAL HEMS
The Pyatigorsk Brucellosis 8tatiixi and Hospital had a nesting to celebrate
its tenth anniversary.
Foundations have been laid for a new Lospital at Chelyabinsk to serve
Markers of local Thermo-Eleotrio Centrals.
A flaorograph has been installed at the Penzea Oblast Tuberculosis
Dispensary. X-ray equipment with Its own portable power supply has been
installed at the 8osnovobor, Oolovirishchin, and Luain hospitals.
There are now four hospitals and 21 medical points in the medical service
network in Prilutakii Heym, romi A88R.
At the Tenth Conference of the Coomunist Party held recently in Tashkent,
problems more discussed concerning public health in Uzbekistan. In 1948, so=
656 million rubles' worth of medical supplies were dispensed by the public
health services. At present, the Republlo has 568 hospitals, 1,150 polyeliadss
and dispensaries, 253 gynesopcdiatrioal consultation stations, a moll-developed
nettlerk of obstetrical and g'necolegioal points,* and 'child welfare centers.
In 1948, aT rayons In the Republic had season to specialised services. It
is expected that in 1949 this network will embrace some 120 rayons. There are
also 40 sanatoriums and rest hones in Uzbekistan.
The Public Health Service of Uzbek 882 has several very importart tasks,
the most Important of which is the elimination of all coerces of malarial
infection within the next 3 to 4 years.
At n recent meeting of the oblast department of the All-Union !Iygienio
Society In Molotov, Prof O. F. Yershov read a report, "Duties of the S&uitatiea
Service In eonneotion with she Planned Davelo'pnent of People's Rconoq In '_yeletw
Oblast."
There are three cities Ir. Molotov Oblast, in addition to the ci*qs? of
Molotov, shioh have organized definite sanitation plane. At the end of the
present Five-Year Plrj, Molotov Oblast will be the in source of hydroelectric
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power for the whole of the Ural region. A total of 300 small hydroelectric
stasticne'have been built an saall rivore throughout the oblast. However the
for Later r?eservoirs .
Production conferences have proven very effective in improving the quality
of tit public medical aid. In 19148 some 82 percent of the proposals
submitted at 18,620 conferences were adopted. It wee due to such a conference
that the city of Leningrad revanped the or ieatica of its public health
department.
Prof I. P. 9inogradov Chief Hospital Physician, decided that otorhinolaryn-
gological and neuropathologiesl patients vhould ~e admitted to the polyclinic.
The Polyclinic may now mcke use of the bed spe-e in the hospital,
for the Improvement of Doctors imeezi S. M. $irov is starting. a clinic in
the espital Sasni Aotkin. Thos hospltal?s;assistant director, vho, at the OWN
tins, is iaorSRnisor for the Chair of Infectious Diseases, recommended at a
repeat produetiom conference held by the Chair of Infectious Diseases t$at
the", Autism of therapist andinfectioaist be combined fonder a single specialty,
and that these new spnoialiets stress home treatment. This was put into affect
and has produced enoel'_entresults. Now doctors assigned to hospitals pea
moot we of the facilities of polyclinics, thus making it possible to diagaase
MV Cr the infectious diseases in the early stages.
Subjects most frequently under discussion at the State Institute for
the 3pronasnt of Doctors (GIMAV) are erroneous diagnosis and therapy, a*Y.
now methods for the control of disease.
'The Chair of Infections Diseases of the State Order of Lenin Institute
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