The daily worker., 1935-01-24
Health Report
Refutes Lies
Of Vim. Hearst
Continued from Page y

committee was followed by a vivid
speech by. Commissar of Health of
the R. S. r. S. p. Ksminski. He
spoke about conditions and perspec-
tiyes of health protection. The
question of national health" he
said, was one of the most important
questions Of the revolution 1t is
therefore not accidental that it is
now discussed in the Congress Of
Soviets.
"On the basis of the sharp rise
of the development of the Soviet
country in the sphere of economy,
technique and culture. the Party
and Government put and most reso-
lutely are solving the question Of
the rise of the cultural and ma
terisl welfare of the masses,
During the course of the years
following the October Revolution
health protection has grown stead
lily, and developed together with the
general growth of the Soviet coun-
try.
The U. S. S. r. has attained
especially great success in the field
of protection of health. Not only
foreign workers and delegations who
visited the Soviet Union, but also
representatives of the capitalist
medical world, have expressed their
surprise at the extent and achieve
ment of Soviet health protection. )"
Shows Great Advances
He went on to show the great
advances in health facilities and
social provisions for the protection
Of the workers health.
"At the Sixteenth Party Con-
gress," he declared, stain clearly
showed that Socialist construction
rs a whole creates such an atmos-
phere of work and everyday life for
the working class which makes it
possible for us to build new work.
ers' generation, healthy and cheer
ful.'
THE gigantic successes Of Social
ist construction and decisive sue
cesses in industrislization, the vic
tories of collective farming, secured
all conditions for a great improve
ment in the health Of the toilers.
The pre-war number of urban
and rural hospitals and dispensaries
has been left far behind. Their
number increased two and a half
times over the number in 1913
Due to the special attention given
by the Soviet State to motherhood
and infancy, the network of lying-in
homes has been increased six times.
While In 1918 Czarist statistics
gave the number Of children placed
in nurseries at 10000, the U. S. S
R. has reached 3,700000 About
22 .OOO. 900 are under medical care
In 1884 over 100000 workers and
collective farmers were sent to
sanatoriums and health resorts and
rest homes.
Death Rate Reduced
"In pre-revolutionary Russia 80
people died per every l,OO0 yearly
and in the borderlands, 40 or more
Whereas in the 18th year of the
revolution, the death rate has
dropped oue-third; and the chill
dren's death rate has been reduced
by one-half. Diseases in the min
ing industry have dropped by 4C
per cent; in the metal industry by
So per cent. etc.
tuberculosis has been consider
ably reduced. The majority Of the
epidemic diseases have dropped by
three to seven times.
According to the plan for 1885
4,073 ,00o, 900 rubles are assigned fol
health protection from the budget
and social insurance funds. While
in 1913 the amount assigned foI
health protection per capita in Rus
sia equalled 92.2 kopeks, the average
expenditure for health in 1885 will
be 30 rubles per capita in the
/ U. s. S. r.
In the course of the post-revo-
lutionary years, a new population
Of healthy, strong, cheerful people
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