Условия труда и быта медицинской интеллигенции города Иваново-Вознесенска на рубеже XIX-XX вв.
The material situation of the medical intelligentsia of the city of Ivanovo-Voznesensk at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to various aspects of the material situation of the provincial intelligentsia on the example of the large industrial city of Ivanovo-Voznesensk from the 1870s to 1917. The author separately examines the working and living conditions of doctors and comes to the conclusion, that in terms of their standard of living, the medical intelligentsia belonged to the privileged stratum of the provincial society. The wages of its representatives were much higher than the salaries of most factory employees, and even more so - workers. The social security of doctors was high, because they, as civil servants, were entitled to a pension. At the same time, the intensity of the work of doctors was very high, because each of them worked in two or three positions and was engaged in private practice. Their working hours were irregular. This situation is explained by the fact that during the period under review in the province there was an acute shortage of specialists with higher medical education. The living conditions of doctors can be called comfortable. The level of their salary allowed them to rent a spacious and comfortable apartment in the city center or even build their own house. The leaders of the city and the zemstvo highly appreciated the work of doctors, since without them the normal work of the main social institutions in the city - medical and educational - was impossible, it was they who ensured the sanitary conditions of schools corresponding to the rules. From time to time, doctors were assigned extraordinary duties in the event of epidemics, and this happened quite often at the turn of the XIX and XX centuries.

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