The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-20

2 fhey went about their daily lives under their amazing social and economic system. and here she nfenents the story of people. not the story of . cause.
 BY JULIA BLANSHARD Stan Writer for NTEA Service and
 The Democrat, Sent to Soviet
 Russia Especially for This Series. (copyright, losi NEA Service Incl
 If you were an expectant moth or in Russia. 1t would pay you to be q factory worker. You would be entitled to four months of with pay when the baby was born.
 If you were n lawyer, teacher or clerical worker, you would get three months vacation from work ---either two months before your baby was born and ono afterwards ---or one month before and two afterwardg.
 You would have no worry over doctors or nurses bills. You would < be entitled to 10 days free in the hospital. In oyercrowded Moscow, you might get only three days, to make room for somebody else, but you would be sure of free care.
 The Soviet government has so- ciaiized the whole fedlcaI profess sion. All doctors are on the state payroll, all workers doctor bills are paid by the state.
 one day visited q Moscow gen. erai dispensary located in an out lying district, where there are two huge textile factories and one met Ailurgical and one chemical factory. This q . jensary is responsible for the heath of the 42,000 persons in this ristrict. It handles 1000 cases day. Everything from pair of glasses to q major operation is free. All the doctors, nurses, dieticinns and others wokgrBo are government employees.
 Five lines of men, women and children waited in the hall, be- fore the windows that registered patients. A huge wall newspaper, 9audily gotten up with colored cfay0n sketches and printing, cautioned patients to talk only fo the doctor about pour sick ness.' The wall. newspaper also quite unconspiciously gave cut to the handicaps that this particular fospital labors under by listing the "dreams of staff members of Po- land.
 Nurses dream of bringing the Wogcow river to the hospitals so they would have plenty of water. ono line read. Others said, "Thc director dreams that his new eiec- tficai machine can handle 1000 cases day" The doctors dream of huge gtores. gtocked to the roof Ntth supplies and equipment and carrying caviar and plenty of po- tatoes."
 nrr.ved Just in time 10 join a tour Of inspection that the hospi- taI dircctor wns taking with six $uung doctors, i've girls and one boy. who had just graduated from the Moscow Medical college. They were the first group to complete their five-year medical course In four.
 The diBpensary was an cnorm- 0tIg place with consultation rooms for everything from q Red army medical examination to Q clinic on fetal skin and eye troubles which {. Workers Buffered In the chemical fictory. There was a special wing tor children and huge department fer women.
 "Ail women of Russia should ifnow methods of birth control by tho end of the five-year plan" the director told me. "All hospitals the Zags marriage bureau. the Red Army and nll factories give 'spe- d.fic Information" I saw birth con trol pamphlets in many Moscow drug gtores.
 Abort!ons are legal In Russia. But the government insists that women 20 to the hospitals and hnye scientific ccre. Such women ire entitled to three days hospital Ention end 10 days vacation from Work with pay. Anyone not be- longing to n labor union must pay: the charge is based on wages and varies from four rubles (s2) to 60 rhblcs ($3O.
 Itussins medical care of It's chil- drcn is one of its most successful henIth programs. In the first year. after the revolution, the death rate was ~ children to every one thougand. The American fig- arc is 14 to 1000.
 Tho "Institute for Mother and Child" IA largely responsible for this health improvement. I visit