endangered by these influences, and above all because to-day their evil effects are exceptionally great owing to the prevalent condition of exhaustion.
Thirdly and lastly, it is of the utmost importance that the whole population should be able to secure gratuitous medical advice and treatment. Our main difficulty at present is due to the absolute lack of drugs. This dearth is not so much the result of the disorganisation of production in Russia as the result of the blockade. The “humane” Allies hope to crush us, not only by cutting us off from access to raw materials and fuel, not only by the “bony hand of hunger,” but also by epidemic disease. This brings us back to our general struggle with world imperialism.
Literature
SEMASHKO, The Elements of Soviet Medical Science. LINDEMANN, The Struggle with Typhus. — Symposium: A Year’s Work of the Commissariat for Public Hygiene.