The fight against epidemic diseases of the population of the middle Volga region during the years of the civil war

In the first years of Soviet power, the working people of our country had not only to fight on the fronts against foreign invaders and internal counter-revolution, but also to wage a stubborn struggle against another dangerous enemy - epidemics. Lenin assigned the leading role in the fight against epidemics to prevention and sanitation. VD Bonch-Bruevich cites the following statement of VI Lenin: “... Sanitation is everything. This is the prevention of all diseases, otherwise we really love to treat the sick, we very much sympathize and regret the dead and do very little to prevent this morbidity and early, premature deaths. "