Development of medical and sanitary affairs in the USSR during the first five-year period

The Central Administration of National Economic Accounting, among other indicators of the national economy, publishes (USSR in Figures. Soyuzorguchet, 1934) a number of very interesting numerical data characterizing the dynamics of the development of public health in our Union. For a comparative characterization of "the state of health care in pre-revolutionary Russia and in the USSR by the beginning of the first five-year plan and by the time of its completion the main quantitative indices of 1913, 1928 and 1932 are taken. It is true that our successes and achievements in health care are determined not only by the expansion of the medical and sanitary network with the increase of the work of our institutions and of the number of visits and visits, for the Soviet health care, created by the October Revolution, was built on entirely different principles, sharply different from those of the bourgeois-capitalist health care system; but quantitative indicators, since they do not lack qualitative significance, are also of considerable interest for us.