MEDICAL FACILITIES IN SLOUT, UKRAINIAN SSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00046R000300100003-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 31, 2013
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 10, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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REPORT NC.,
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COUNTRY USSR
DATE DISTR. /0 V.a.c., '53
SUBJECT Medical Facilities in Slout, Ukrainian
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DATE OF INFORMATION
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PLACE ACQUIRED
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1. In ?1944, after the German occupation, a maternity hospital (Rodiltnyy
dom RodDom) was established in Slout 5 51-45, E 334.87. Located
in an old building with about 10 beds and serving the village of
?Slout, this hospital was staffed with a midwife, two nurses, and a
female orderly. Although all medical services at this hospital were
free no meals were provided, and the mothers had to have food
? brought to them by members of their families. It was particularly
because of the necessity of having food brought to them at the hos-
pital, often from considerable distances, that most women were reluc-
tant to give birth to their children there; they preferred to haye
their children born at home. If a woman so desired she could reqUist
the hospital's midwife to help deliver the child at hcoMe, but fre-
quently some older woman who was a neighbor would be balled Upon to
assist. To encourage women to have their children in the hospital,
every woman who did so was given 15 m. of cloth, usually satin or
some similar material, a policy which existed in other 50:00
villages in Glukhov Rayon. This policy was aiscontinued some time
after 1948, by which time most women had become accustomed to having
their children in the RodDom.
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in the RodDom, and other women, there was virtually no prenatal or
postnatal care. Furthermore, no anesthetic was administered during
50:00 childbirth. visited by the midwife from the maternity
hospital briefly a few times during her prenatal period; no charge
was ever made for these visits. If at any time complications developed
which could not be coped with by the midwife, the woman was sent to
the rayon hospital in Glukhov 5 51-40, E 33-57. As soon as a
woman, married or unmarried, was found to be pregnant, the RodDom
made an official record of her pregnancy to forestall any abortions.
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Abortions were punishable by seven years mprisonment for the
mother and five years for anyone who assisted in them.
several deaths which resulted from abortions which, despite the
severe penalty for them, were still being done
any deaths during childbirtn or eitner
a mother or her baby, but the mortality rate among infants under
three months of age seemed rather high r--Cannot quote any
figures, always felt that too many babies died during their
first few mon s.)
Slout had no general hospital; it had only a small dispensary
(Sanitarnyy punkt) which administered little more than First Aid.
Staffed by a feldsher and one nurses this dispensary had no beds;
seriously ill were taken to the rayon hospital in Glukhov. No
charges were made for medical care, medicines, or house calls.
rin nnt Itnnw what medinines were available.
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any inoculations bein iven to either children or adults. The
50X1 only epidemic occurred in the first four or five months
? of 19420 during erman occupation.7-7Village was stricken bymx1
? typhus (sypnoy tif); at least half the peop e were ill, and a great
50X1 number died. ot know what measures the Germans took besides
the impositivu w. trict isolation of the sick and a strict quaran-
tine on the entire village. So far village was the 50O
only one in the rayon which was strieite LI .
Slout had no facilities, for dental care, and anyone in need of dental
work had to go to Glukhov. Extractions and fillings were done free
of charge; but other dental work, such as the making of crowns,
bridges, and dentures, had to be paid for. )annot quote any pricS'Oxi
for this dental work,
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