It was not possible to complete all the tasks that were set at the beginning of the work: we had to take into account the possibility of an imminent evacuation and refuse such lengthy and expensive work as building a bathhouse or a shelter for the wounded. Therefore, the efforts of those working at point 5 were aimed not so much at creating new institutions, but at servicing existing ones. Every day, on average, there were about 150 dressings, kromz t5kh, which took place in a special surgical barracks, where about three hundred wounded were treated.
Typhoid, cholera and smallpox patients were served in the infectious barracks. Finally, a bacteriological laboratory was opened,
The work of the point continued for about three days and was interrupted as a result of the evacuation of Sokal.
At the beginning of February, the second sanitary station of the Zemstvo Union, No. 196, began work in Galishchi.
The Union's sanitary stations ran along the Galishchi roads to the railway stations closest to the forward positions, and during major battles they were often overcrowded with the wounded. G
Trains worked especially intensively during the evacuation of Galishchi: one late train No. 172 to Maz SDB made nine trips and transported about five thousand people. Late arrival at this time was the responsibility of the local Committee, and later, after the evacuation of Galishchi, it was decided to concentrate the overall management of trains and reporting on them in Moscow, and the Committee of the Southwestern Front was entrusted with the responsibility of supplying all the necessary trains of the Union that constantly operate in its area or are temporarily located there.
] Not limiting itself to providing assistance to the wounded, the Committee tried to increase the number of its medical and sanitary institutions and carry out work to prevent the epidemic.
The number of boilers gradually increased: in April 5lb, thirty-three boilers were already operating, located in nineteen towns.
The nutritional centers that arose during the period of feeding and feeding of soldiers passing through the camps expanded their activities: in early February, the first nutritional center was established, intended for the population devastated by the war. This point was opened in the village of Radokhontsy, near Przemysl, where the local population especially needed help, and fed on average 400 people daily.
In those places where a lot of troops were concentrated, the Union opened baths. In some baths, soldiers received clean baths instead of dirty ones. Due to the accumulation of large amounts of dirty laundry at such bathhouses, laundries were set up.
By April 1915, five bathhouses were already operating: in Brody, Tarnov, Dombrovz and Zagorz, and new bathhouses were being built in many more | other points.
The largest of these baths was to be opened at the station in Lviv. The Union spent about ten thousand rubles on equipping this bathhouse, but when only the water supply remained to be arranged, they unexpectedly received orders to move it to another location. After negotiations with the highest military and military sanitary authorities, this order was canceled, however, it significantly delayed the opening of the bathhouse, and it was opened | only shortly before Lviv was evacuated. |
The construction of boilers, feeding stations and baths can be considered among the secrets that prevented the development of epidemics.
But this could not be limited to this: it was necessary to organize epidemic squads and barracks, set up a bacteriological laboratory, and restore hospitals for the local population.
As has already been said, even before the emergence of the Committee, at the meeting of representatives of the Union and the military sanitary authorities, the beginning of medical care for the local population was laid.
It was late at the same meeting, convened on February 25th! The following decision was made: “The arrangement of the hospital DF, in view of the difficulty for the Military Sanitary Department to take on this responsibility at present, should be entrusted to an organization that has extensive experience in this regard. The All-Russian Zemsuy Union is such an organizing body.”
The regional hospitals, the restoration of which the Union was supposed to undertake, were for the most part designed for one hundred to one hundred and fifty people, often well equipped, had their own staff of side-by-side nuns, but it was necessary to replenish their medical personnel, deliver the necessary medicines and take over the management of their activities. To the moment. The evacuators of Galishchi, with the help of the Union, operated 15 regional hospitals.