DISEASE PREVALENCE AND CONTROL/MEDICAL SERVICES/MEDICAL CARE FOR MERCHANT MARINE CREWS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00280R000100020016-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 8, 2011
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: September 18, 1956
• Content Type: REPORT

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In 1946 the population of the village of Ve ev ka was about -
sons.
1935 and 1938, and
in 1939-1940.
The situation (with regard to the effects or the famine) was good in 1935-1938
it was fairly good between
the situation "'50X1 HUM
nearest medical center was located at the extrem en o ae ago, also west
of the center of the village. There was no street name. The nearest Rayon
hospital was 30 kms away.
6. The village hospital had about 20 beds, the Rayon hospital about 200 beds, but
there may have been more than one hospital in the Rayon.
7. If a villager became sick and was unable to go for medical assistance, either
relatives or neighbors would call a doctor from the nearest medical center. He
may have had to wait two or sometimes three hours before help actually arrived.
If it was considered necessary to transfer a patient to a hospital, a horse and
wagon was borrowed from the kolkhoz manager and the patient taken to the hospital
in it.
9. The village hospital had three doctors. The Rayon hospital about 20. 50X1-HUM
"sanitarnyy druzhiny" of the Red Croes.in sabools but nowhere else. A senool-
child would be charged with the task of checking on the clean appearance of
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other sehoolebildren in his class. Soreti.-xs.he would do so, most of the time
he would not.
11. The CSO badge wus worn by teenagers, 15-16 yeal's old, before and during World War II
to "h that thav ware t !~!n ! !n ewn)r- nz barr,d*p" L. n 7irr. Injures, These
badges were looked upon by the village people as more or less of a joke. Atc1tr
World 7ar II nobody ever wore such a badge again. 50X1-HUM
12. Kolkhoz girls were happy to accept work as volunteer nurses at the village medical
center because they considered the work there much more pleasant than on the fields.
14.
15.
there were no infectious human diseases in the village nor
Fintectious animal diseases among kolkhoz animals altboug
] died from lark of frwui--]-
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There was one veterinary specialist in the village. The service was fair.
16. From 1946 to 1953, people (Russian,, Ukrainians, etc) emigrated to Feodosiya and
other towns and villages in the oblest from other oblasts all the time. They can
from Ivanovskaya, Gor'kovskaya, Voronezhskaya, Kharkov, that is, the entire Euro-
pean part of the USSR. The percentage of the total amount of newcomers in Feodosiya
may be 80% to 90% of the Feodosiya population. 50X1-HUM
18. There were 40 or 42 men in the crew of the SS "Ararat" and 49 in that of the "Tuapse"
The SS "Ararat" had a woman doctor, two beds in the sick bay but no nurses.
The "Tuapse" mad a male doctor, no nurses and a couple of beds. The sick bay on
the "Tuapse" was an ordinary cabin, with a closet containing medicines. There was
an infirmary.
19. If a crew member broke a leg or arm or became sick and stayed in his quarters, the
doctor would come within a few minutes and assist no matter if it was day or night.
In case oC serious illness requiring an operation, the doctor would perform it if
he could; if he could not a patrol boat from the nearest port would pick up the
patient and transfer him to a hospital for t-eatnent.
20. Merchant marine recruits are subjected to a thorough physical examination. The
following are checked: Eyes, ears, nose, throat, chest (X-ray is made), urinalysis,
and feces are examined. The exaninat'_on also covers sexual organs, anus, etc.
Members of the crew are given a physical examination once a year. i
21. There is little or no venereal disease among the crew but excessive drinking is
widespread.
22. To prevent VD, crew members are forbidden to remain ashore overnight and when over-
seas, contact with women is strictly forbidden and very strict control to prevent
such contact is always enforced. Members of the crew returning to th'dr ship in-
toxicated are deprived of further shore leave and reprimanded by Captain, Pompolit,
First Lbte, Chief Engineer and Boatswain, either singly or all of then separately.
23. Bad food conditions in the USSR have an effect on the health of the population.
They have led to stomach ulcers and cancer, appendicitis, frequent colds due to
lack of fats and lack of proper clothing and general weakness caused by lack
of sugar and fats.
24. Shipboard personnel on tankers were inoculated twice a year against malaria, dipth-
eria, dysentery and typhus and were also vaccinate) against smallpox.
25.
26.
Out-patient clinics have separate offices for each medical specialty. In addition,
most of then have a fairly large waiting room which is kept in clean sanitary
condition. The different specialties are: eye, ear-nose-throat, neurology,
teeth, X-ray, surgery and venereal disease. As a rule, the service is good.