At the end of the year, the turnover of the Warehouse and Procurement Department reached very significant proportions: when in October the budgets of the Union institutions for the next four months were drawn up, it turned out that goods worth about 8,000,000 rubles should be produced. In order to avoid overpayments, which could be very significant with such a large cost, the Committee in its meeting on October 17 decided to form a special purchasing commission, instructing it to establish methods for purchasing goods and items needed by the Committee, organize tenders and conclude agreements with suppliers.
At the same time, an acceptance committee was established, which was supposed to determine the quality of the purchased goods, carrying out analyzes for this purpose and inviting experts.
The Warehousing and Procurement Department continued to supply the Union institutions with everything necessary, with the exception of medicines dispensed from the warehouses of pharmaceutical goods located in the Medical and Sanitary Department and leather, the collection and distribution of which were located in the Leather Department.”
The tanning department grew significantly during this time and was able to widely supply commissariat and institutions working for the army with leather goods. The number of leathers collected is growing rapidly: already in mid-October, about 700,000 leathers were collected. In October and November, treaties were concluded under which the activities of the Tannery Department were also extended to other fronts of the active army, and since then the number of leathers received began to increase even faster.
These leathers continued to be distributed to public organizations supplying shoes to the army, and in addition, part of them was directly processed for the needs of the current army.
Otdzl leased a tanning factory in Vinnytsia, which undertook to produce a significant amount of shoes at prices below market prices, opened his own saddlery workshop, took out a contract for 20,000 cavalier pieces, and set up a special workshop.
In addition, the Department took upon itself the procurement of a very significant number of cartridge bags and already in mid-December
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handed over to the Commissariat about eight hundred thousand pieces. At the same time, orders for waist belts and training jackets were fulfilled.
Finally, the Department constantly received demands from the repair shops of various army units, and leather goods were sent there in large quantities.”:
Finally, the last initiative of the Galish period—the establishment of feeding stations for trench workers—has now turned into a large and complex undertaking.
On August 13, in the Committee's office, it was reported that from the highest ranks of the Military VFdomstvo there had been a proposal to transfer food for trench workers in quantities of about 180,000 to the Zemstvo Union. people k.
The committee decided to accept this proposal if it was given the opportunity to send goods to the front according to the rules established for goods transported for military purposes. Thus, a new department of the Committee arose, the management of which was entrusted to E. A. Elachich. The department immediately had to begin intensive work and increase it every month. While serving trench workers, the Division could not limit itself to arranging feeding stations and had to take certain measures to protect their health. The workers themselves rarely turned to the heads of nutrition centers, especially the nurses, with a request to give medicine and advice; it was necessary to open points where Union doctors would regularly receive patients, and send middle and junior medical personnel to the trench work sites. Already at the very beginning of the work, it was necessary to open several paramedic stations, but it soon turned out that this was not enough and it was necessary to strive to ensure that every worker who needed it could benefit from medical assistance.
In September, work begins on organizing medical care on a large scale, and by the end of the month, the medical personnel of the Department are already working at 17 points. By January 1, almost every detachment had one or two doctors, several paramedics and paramedics, and several nurses,