SOCIOLOGICAL - PUBLIC HEALTH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600220712-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 712
• Publication Date: May 2, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Sociological - Public health
HOW
PUBLISHED Meekly newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Moscow
DATE
PUBLISHED 6 Apr 1949
LANGUAGE Russian
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and obstetricians frog og are ?6 ring at Vn19ci for an intensive
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propsom Aa literature, are being circulated and acme good results have been
oblaimed. For example, at Zonis' village the local obstetrician examines
the women in their own home and at the time most convenient for them,
Thus, without causing any trouble, she examined 115 women, of whom 22 showed'
mass examinations. most of the email industries and sovkhotes employ women
almost exclusively and they generally coo?erate in these programs. Lass
examinations of kollthot persomtei is somewhat mare difficult because they
are generally more reticent to report for examtmtions and are unwilling
to discuses tt., subject.
Authorities are endeavoring to avoid resorting to official action to
1 to submit to examinations. Several other methods, primmrily
quent trips into the country to act as coneultan;s in difficult cases.
and the rural obstetrical and gynecoiogical stations. The former make fre-
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e11dence of possible cancer and were sent to a specialist for further ob-
servation.
In 1948 a plan in which all women above 35 were required to register.
was, put into affect. Cards were made out on those who showed pathologic
changes. These cards have served to yield considerable data on the disease
rate among women. In April, 673 men were examined; three were found to
have cancer in the initial stages. In )by, 1,346 women were exeainedax*
stein. thxes cases.of iaitla&-stage cancer were dlooovered. The records for
September show that,out of 562 women examined, two bad cancer, In October,
768 women were examined and one case of cancer was determined. At the ease
time, women were checked for other disorders. This method proved successful
in 1948 and is going to be repeated this year.
The results of methods employed In the Valki area have been so satisfactory,
that the ffisarekov Institute of Oncology has decided to use this system through-
out the oblast.
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