СФЕРА ОХОРОНИ ЗДОРОВ’Я В ОДЕСІ НА ПОЧАТКУ ХХ СТОЛІТТЯ: ПРОПОЗИЦІЇ МІСЬКИХ ГОЛІВ
THE HEALTH PROTECTION’S SPHERE IN THE ODESSA AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY: CITY MAYORS’ OFFERS

Summary/Abstract: In the second half of the nineteenth - early twentieth centuries the medical sector in the field was generally concentrated in the hands of zemstvo and municipal government agencies, more or less, tried to make informed decisions, with the assistance of the zemstvo. The main idea of the article is the suggestion of city mayors in the field of health care to restore a complete picture of the history of urban self-government at the beginning of the twentieth century through the city mayors of Odessa. Kherson Zemstvo was one of the best in terms of providing medical services and overcoming epidemics that already had a local character at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - plague, cholera, typhus, diphtheria, etc. The activities of medical and recreational facilities, the quality of service of the population and the sanitary and epidemiological situation were important issues for consideration by the Duma and the relevant commissions. In the periods of epidemic swings, city mayors at the level of the public and sponsors made advisable proposals to prevent the spread, eradication of pathogens and reduce the number of patients among the population. Also, at the beginning of the twentieth century, they talked about the protection of labor during the production process, which was a tremendously necessary application for favorable working conditions. The author notes that the proposals of the heads of the city government also played an important role in improving the general condition of the city, opening new facilities, studying serums and preventing an increase in the number of patients, which was noted at the national level.

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