[The organization of maternity and child care in the Buryat-Mongolskaya ASSR during the Great Patriotic War].
In Ulan-Ude, in 1942, the mortality of children at the age from 0 to 15 years consisted 64% of total numbers of died persons. The main causes of children mortality during all the war were tuberculosis, pneumonia, toxic dyspepsia and diarrhea. In October 1942, the government adopted a special decree obligated Narcomzdrav of the USSR to re-establish the system of maternity and child care existed before the war. The focus was made on the district principle of functioning of women and children consultations and polyclinics and to take measures to enhance the children diet and food vitaminization. In Buryat-Mongolskaya ASSR, during the war period, no epidemics of infectious diseases were allowed. In this difficult period of life the first multifield children hospital and municipal infection hospital with children beds were established and functioned with success.
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