Tlic women's biittalion, Pcfrogrnd. — These women soldiers foutjl't galliinlly for tlieir 

 country last summer at many i>oints on the battle front 



Public Health Problems in Russia 



\W (' - Iv A. W 1 N S J. O W 



Curator of Puhlic Healtli, American JIuseum of Natural History; Professor of Public Health, 

 Yale University; Member of American Red Cross Mission to Russia 



Til !•; Aiiici-iciiii K(m1 Cross Mis- 

 >i(iii lo IJussiu (Dr. Frank 

 Billings of Chicago, Chair- 

 nian) left tho United States at the end 

 of June to offer aid, on l)elialf of the 

 American people, in tlic iiiilitai'v and 

 civilian relief problems itf (nir IJussian 

 allies. The trip was made by Canadian 

 Paeiiic steamer to Yokohama, across 

 Japan by rail, from Tsuruga to Vladi- 

 vostock by Russian A^olunteer Fleet 

 steamer, and across the 'I'rans-Siberian 

 Railroad by the one-time Imperial 

 train, which had brought the Root party 

 out and was held for our accommoda- 

 tion. The dining car on this train was 

 the one in which the Czar handed his 

 abdication to the representatives of the 

 Russian people, four muni lis before. 



We found Siberia a beaut il'nl coun- 

 try and potentially a I'ieli and pros|)er- 

 ous one, a larger edition of our own 

 Xorthwest. Russia as ;i wbole was 

 surprisingly peaceful ami oiderly, con- 

 sidering the crisis tbroiigb which it used for government bureaus, the pic- 

 was passing. Police power had virtu- lures of the late royal familv were cov- 

 ally ceased to exist since the Revolu- ered neatly with brown ])a])er. 



niustrations from photographs by the .Author 



tion, yet I did not bear anywhere so 

 miieb as a voice raised in anger. Bread 

 lines. me;it lines, milk lines, tobacco 

 lines, ealic-o lines, were to be seen on al- 

 most every street, and in some of them 

 the people slept all night upon the 

 doorstejis oi- the pavement in order to 

 hold their places for the morning: but 

 I saw nowhere anything but patience 

 and courtesy, no single attempt to push 

 ahead and gain an unfair advantage. 



The lack of bitterness or wanton 

 damage with which tbe Revolution was 

 consummated struck ns as another evi- 

 dence of tho self-control and common 

 .«ensc of the Russian people. The jails 

 and the secret service archives had been 

 burnt but otherwise Petrograd and 

 Moscow were unharmed. Great Cather- 

 ine's statue on the Xevski had been hal- 

 lowed to new uses by the simple process 

 of thrusting the red flag of the Revolu- 

 tion into her hand alongside the im- 

 ]ierial scepter; and in the palaces, now 



