[Function of observation posts and squads escorted wounded transports in the Great War].
In autumn of year 1914 more and more epidemic cases were observed from the eastern front-line. The infected wells, the lack of cleanliness and the health were the reasons, and the home territory was also in danger because of transportation of the wounded soldiers. For the sake of defence the sick soldiers were transported as a closed detachment, then "saving zones" were established with ill-observation posts. The posts were ruled by two leaders. The commissioner of the Minister for Home Affairs prevented spread of contamination, the commanding officer of the military squads organized order and subordination. There were squads escorted the wounded detachments; they worked in two areas: from the border railway stations to the observation posts and at these posts. They worked as escorts, supervisors of the sick soldiers. The posts were barracks; they consisted of an entrance room, operating rooms, laboratories, barracks of infecting and non-infecting ills etc. The soldiers were quartered into 5 groups, infecting ills, non-infecting ills, people contacted infecting ills, wounded men, other ills. The staff of posts consisted of 57-64 people.
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