HOSPITALS IN HARBIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 19, 2007
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• Publication Date: November 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
1. Hospitals in Harbin
2. Medical Condititions in Harbin
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing of the Espionage laws, Title 18, V.S.C. Secs. 793
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law.
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 11 November 195+
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REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
Hospitals in Harbin
1. Hospital Number One of the Soviet Citizens Association was in the Madigou Dis-
trict of Harbin. The head of this hospital was Dr. Sergey Sementovskiy who
had arrived in Harbin from the USSR about 1920 and had obtained his Soviet pass-
port in 1946. He received his medical training in Tomsk; his specialty was
gynecology. Assisting at the hospital were Dr. Maria Pashak, specialist in
gynecology; Dr. Mstislav Slobodin, specialist in internal diseases; and Dr.
Malievsky (fnu), oculist. There were 50 beds in this hospital for patients,
among whom were usually a few Chinese.
2. Hospital Number Two of the Soviet Citizens Association, was in the Pristan Dis-
trict of Harbin. The head of this hospital was Dr. Gregoriy Chaplik, specialist
in dermatology and venereal diseases. Assisting him were Domskiy (fnu), a surgeon,
Dr. Petr Lvov, specialist in dermatology, and Dr. Nikolay Lvov, ear, nose, and
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All three doctors were residents of Harbin for many years.
throat specialist. patients, among whom were usually a
There were 60 beds in this hospital for few Chinese. s Hospital was in the Pristan District of Harbin. '
The head of
Topaz) specialist in internal diseases es and dleksey
3 The Red Cross
this hospital was Dr. Solomon SU (fnu), Chinese, Dr.
him were Dr. Serebryakov (fnu), ~ surg
dermatology. Assisting ecialist; and Dr.
and throat s. Dr. SU received his medical training
Topaz)
Zhukovskiy ear, nose, diseases.
l
the specia~.ist in interns, the Japanese who had occupation. obtained their
at the Harbin Medical Institute during
Serebryakov, and Zhukovskiywere Russian emigrants
Soviet passports in Harbin. 2 and Bolshoy
Chinese doc-
4. The hospital of the Harbin ediAtathis hiospitetal as at there were only
Prospects, New Town, Harbin.
tors. The director and all the instructors at the Institute were also Ch nes j
foreign countries.
all of whom received their medical training The head of
Monast u District specialist Harbin. ecialist in
, oRussian emigrant and
hospital Hospital o
5? Boris Ch (fnua)istyak, also a Russian emigrant and specialist
this hoospitaal was '~
internal diseases. Dr. was in Sazhin the M ov at the hospital until January 1953
the Chinese municipal authorities for undeter
in internan wasearrested by assisted Chistyak patients) among whom
when Sazhi -
mined reasons. There were 20 beds in this hospital for were usually a few Chinese. of Harbin. This hospital
6. The Central Hospital was in New Town (Novyy Gorod) t for meos
was free, except District- Most
exclusively for railroad workers in the Harbin
attention
amount
was the patients the aof the pawere Chinese. Medical
e~a family, for whom a small fee was charged;
bars of the employe +s salary.
was deducted from the employee 1 who replaced a Soviet
The head of the Central Hospital was Dr. WANG Pen-fu,
7? doctor who returned to the USSR during 1953. a were as
The departments of the Central Hospital and the doctors in charg
8.
follows:
son of Russian em._ - ov--erhA
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Doctor in charge
Depa_ r~ t replaced Dr . Mont
throat Unidentified owho returned to USSR
Eye, ear, nose (fnu), Soviet specialist
during 1952.
1 graduate of a medical university
(fnu), g
Dr. CHOU
and former subordinate to Vladimir
Surgery in Peiping, replaced when Domskiy
Marianich Domskiy whom he 1953? Domskiy,
resigned from the staff in SeDtember replaced
received his
Therapy
X-ray
Dermatology
Dr. WANG, the director of the hospi a
.
Dr. CHOU, who was also in charge of surgery.
medicine in Harbin
Dr. Chaplik, wh
for many years.
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Department Doctor in charge
Infectious Diseases Unidentified Chinese who replaced Dr. MAA (fnu),
who died of cancer during 1953.
Tuberculosis Unidentified Soviet doctor who arrived from
the USSR during 1953.
9. Other doctors assisting at the Central Hospital were the following:
a. Rubinskiy (fnu), who had arrived in Harbin shortly after the revolution
in Russia, where he had received all of his medical training. He special-
ized in internal diseases.
b. Nikolay Lvov,5 ear, nose, and throat specialist.
c. Tamara Semenovna Ursova,
and resident of Harbin for many years.
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d. Eric Varbola, recent graduate of the Harbin Medical Institute, who was
considered very competent by the other doctors in the Central Hospital.
e. Vladimir Kasitsyn, also a recent graduate of the Harbin Medical Insti-
tute and close friend of Varbola.
10. All of the equipment in the Central Hospital was Japanese and old; most of
it was in bad condition.
11. Penicillin manufactured in the USSR was considered by the doctors and nurses
in the Central Hospital as much inferior to the penicillin produced in the
United States. Many Chinese and Caucasian patients in the Central Hospital
refused to allow the doctors and nurses to treat them with Soviet penicillin,
which they considered completely ineffectual. They could recognize the Soviet
penicillin because it turned yellow after it was shaken prior to its injection
in the patient.
12. Stomach ailments were most common at the Central Hospital. There were also a
large number of pulmonary tuberculosis cases.
Medical Conditions in Harbin
13. During about late 1951 and early 1952, there was an epidemic of typhus in
Harbin on a small scale. According to persons who arrived in Harbin during
this period from North China and other parts of Manchuria, there was a much
more serious epidemic of typhus in those areas than in Harbin. Soviet doc-
tors arrived from the USSR to help combat the disease, not only in Harbin but
in the other areas of Manchuria and North China.
14. In Harbin there was a serious shortage of cocaine, morphine, aspirin, and
medicinal alcohol. However, sulfadiazine and sulfaguanidine, both manufactured
by Parke Davis, and penicillin, manufactured by Lilly and marked usable until
the end of 1955, were still available in sufficient quantity in Harbin.
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3. This is probably the same Domskiy reported in paragraph 2 as assisting
at Hospital Number Two of the Soviet Citizens Association.
4. This is probably the same Chaplik reported in paragraph 2 of this re-
port as head of Hospital Number Two of the Soviet Citizens Association.
5. Dr. Nikolay Lvov is also reported in paragraph 2 of this report as
assisting at Hospital Number Two of the Soviet Citizens Association.
6. Good penicillin, such as that produced in the U.S., turns white rather
than yellow when shaken. This appeared to be well-known to the residents
of Harbin who had occasion to receive penicillin injections.
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