The problem of reducing and eliminating infectious diseases in the TASSR

Abstract

From the first days of the existence of the young Soviet Republic, along with economic devastation, it was threatened by an equally insidious enemy - epidemics that covered vast territories and reached extraordinary intensity. In the general picture of social upheavals of that time, epidemics occupied one of the first places. Only in the Tatar Republic in 1920, according to far from complete data, there were about 3 thousand patients with smallpox, 90 thousand patients with typhus, 14 thousand patients with relapsing fever. In Kazan in 1917-1919. 54% of workers have had malaria. In 1921, a cholera epidemic affected 12 thousand people, of whom 40% died.

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