On the question of rural midwives

It must be admitted that the prof. Otm the question of giving help to village women in labor is of paramount importance. Who else, if not us, the doctors of the village and the zemstvo, is closest to feeling this side of our activity? Can we, with indifference, look at the fact that the government of the zemstvo has already given so much to the people in different aspects of his life, in this relationship have brought him very little practical benefit? Before our eyes, Zemskaya Rossiya was covered with a dense network of medical districts and hospitals; from year to year, the number of people seeking help from doctors is increasing, the number of people being treated in hospitals is the same, operational assistance to the population in the village is growing; in many places the population itself solicits for the invitation of doctors, sometimes keeps them at its own expense; in uzdakh, even such a discipline begins to take root, which is required by school sanitary and sanitary in general, and between them the obstetric help to the population does not move, although, without any doubt, the zemstvo would not spare money if it developed.