Formation and development of urban medicine in Maykop (late 19th - early 20th centuries)

Abstract

State modernization is impossible without creating a reliable, effective health care system capable of ensuring high-quality livelihoods of people. The choice of the most optimal variant of its reform is possible if they take into account the historical experience accumulated by the system on the way of its development. Researchers pay special attention to the post-reform period (1861-1917), in which fundamental changes took place in public medicine, that is the creation of zemstvo medicine, and later, on the model of zemstvo, and urban medicine. The article examines the history of the formation of urban medicine in Maykop, relating to this period of active reforms on the basis of archival materials. The author notes that the status of the city and the proposed conditions attracted highly qualified specialists to work. The competitive basis of the appointment to the position made it possible to select the best. Such as V.F.Soloviev, who had two higher educations in Physics and Mathematics from St. Petersburg University and in Medicine from Kharkov University, S.M. Kogan who was a graduate of the Kharkov Medical Faculty, who was also educated in France and Germany, M.M. Kaplanskaya who was a graduate of the University of Zurich and others. Attention is also drawn to the special attitude towards infectious patients? And to the construction of separate barracks for their maintenance and treatment, as well as for insurance of doctors working with infectious diseases. The priority for the city government of the problems of medical provision of the population is noted.