Milestones in the history of the sanitary and epidemiological service in the Novosibirsk Region

   The article describes the period of formation of the sanitary and epidemiological service in Siberia, its goals, tasks, forms of organization of work, which is of particular interest in the year of the 100th anniversary of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological service. During the formation of Soviet power, the country was in dire need of an organization that could solve the most important strategic tasks of preserving and multiplying the population, promptly and fundamentally respond to challenges, protect citizens from epidemic threats.

   The purpose of the study. To describe, using archival data, the historical aspects of the formation of the sanitary and epidemiological service in the Novosibirsk region. 

   Materials and methods. The study was conducted in the form of a retrospective analysis of literary sources and archival materials reflecting the period of formation of the sanitary and epidemiological service in the Novosibirsk region, the period 1921-1945.

   Results. Siberia in the 20s of the last century was distinguished by a high level of infectious morbidity and mortality of the population. The situation was complicated by devastation and famine, complete lack of sanitary improvement, mass placement of prisoners of war of Germans, Austrians, Czechs. This predetermined the prerequisites for an increase in morbidity and mortality of the population, including from typhoid and typhoid fever, tuberculosis, syphilis, malaria, dysentery, cholera. The establishment of the sanitary and epidemiological service during this period made it possible to organize effective anti-epidemic work, which made it possible to stop the growth of infectious diseases, save thousands of human lives in the relentless fight against epidemics.

   Conclusion. The tasks facing the service in the historical period under study were fully fulfilled, and together with them the foundation was laid for the development of a well-organized, well-organized Federal Service, endowed with the powers of lawmaking, the introduction of regulatory legal acts that ensure the unity of approaches to solving urgent problems in the field of occupational hygiene and occupational pathology, hygiene of children and adolescents, food hygiene, municipal and radiation hygiene, toxicology, epidemiology.

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