These detachments, moving behind their units, could not regularly use the Union warehouses and often had to turn to the Commissariat. Meanwhile, it was undesirable to entrust the Quartermaster, which was responsible for the direct supply of the army, with food to the advanced detachments of the Zemstvo Union. In addition, the prices of the Commissariat were higher than the prices accepted in the warehouses of the Union, and supplying the detachments with things and products from their own warehouses could provide some savings.
Therefore, the Committee decided to organize special cargo transport warehouses, which were supposed to deliver everything necessary to the detachments.
In addition to the forward detachments, transports could also serve the rest of the established Union, delivering to them all the products they needed.
The formation of freight transport began in April, their work began on May 7, when freight transport first set out from Lviv.
At the head of each detachment was a commissioner who actually directed its work. In relations with the military authorities, the formation of new detachments and general leadership was assumed by the Committee.
Each transport initially contained only one responsible Union employee, to whom the lower personnel were subordinated, and later, when the number of carts was increased, the transport was divided into platoons, which were managed by Union employees.
In April, when the number of advance detachments increased significantly, it was decided to divide their management between two permanent members of the Labor Committee. A.P. Tolstoy and V.V. Gutovsky, and two sectors were formed: the southern one, in which the Fifth and Twelfth detachments worked, and the Northern one, where the First, Second, Tenth and Fifteenth detachments were located.
The closest thing to the forward detachments, in terms of their tasks and the nature of the work, were dressing and feeding stations, where assistance was provided to sick and wounded soldiers evacuated inland.
The first such point was opened on April 4 in Dębitz, where the sick and wounded, transported in narrow-gauge trains, were transferred to broad-gauge trains. When the staff of the dressing and feeding station arrived in Dębica, the wounded were already arriving and receiving help from doctors at a nearby hospital, but there was no room where the wounded could be received from the train, no feeding station, no dressing room. Within a few days the premises were equipped, and the point began to operate. Soon, due to the offensive of the Austrians, the influx of wounded increased so much that the staff of the point had to work
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day and night. There were not enough people to register the dressings being used and to record the number of portions dispensed; in the late days, when there were especially many wounded, the staff of the point was not able to sweep them away.
On April 23, the enemy got so close to Dębicw that further operation of the point became impossible, and it had to be evacuated.
Over the last eight days of its operation, the point released 5,463 wounds, but the number of dressings, for the above reasons, could not be determined.
After the evacuation of Dębica, the dressing and feeding station was moved to Lyubachev, where work began on May 6 and worked for twenty days. The main evacuation point was already operating in Lyubachev, which transferred all concerns regarding the nutrition of the arriving military officials to the nunct of the Zemstvo Union. It was necessary to work extremely intensively: in twenty-one days the point issued more than twenty-two thousand volumes, twenty-three thousand servings of Tea, performed 1,425 dressings and more than 300 smallpox vaccinations.
After Lyubachev was evacuated, the point was moved to Podvolochisk, and the GDB began work on June 2nd.
` Another dressing, nutritional and VMStV isolation point was opened in Sokalz. Here the Military House established a so-called “hospital town,” in which barracks were set up for the wounded and sick.
At the beginning of May, the town was completely overcrowded with the wounded and sick, and the medical personnel serving it were extremely insufficient. In the contagious detachment - in the barracks - there worked only one doctor and two nurses, one of whom herself became infected with typhus.
The head of the point, General Sulimovsky, addressed the Committee with a written request to send a special medical detachment to service the point. The committee decided to send the necessary medical personnel to Sokal and take over the construction of a bathhouse, laundry, unloading, nutrition point and care for infectious patients.
On May 17, the staff of the point began work, and it became clear that it was necessary to open a surgical department.