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Organizational issues in lowering infectious diseases rate in the Nalchik District of the Tersk Region in 1882–1918
[History of medicine]
Valery Yuryevich Albitsky; Irina Leonidovna Semenova;
The item offers certain facts concerning the spread of infectious diseases in the Nalchik District of the Tersk Region, based on archival data. There are also some highlights offered regarding the stages of developing of the sanitary and epidemiological service, regarding the role of district doctors in carrying out preventive work, as well as the on shaping the sanitary and hygienic culture of the peoples of the Caucasus. Despite the measures taken by the government, preventive decrees to be implemented locally and involving the administrative resource of the Tersk Region, and even in view of active smallpox vaccination, infectious diseases remained a big issue for the population of the Nalchik District of the Tersk Region. Infectious diseases spread due to the lack of an due number of doctors and paramedics available, low sanitary and epidemiological awareness of the indigenous population, and a low level of socio-economic structure
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Keywords: typhus, cholera, smallpox, infection, Nalchik District, Terek Region
Founders:
Stavropol State Medical Academy
Pyatigorsk State Research Institute of Balneotherapeutics
Pyatigorsk State Pharmaceutical Academy