V. I.

Lenin

459

To:   N. A. SEMASHKO [1]

Comrade Semashko, Discuss this (if need be, with the People’s Commissariat
for Railways and the Commissariat for Military Affairs)
and reply by telephone whether you are taking action, how and when . Urgent!

Lenin

27/X.

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Notes:
[1]
Written on a memo addressed to Lenin by the Business Manager
of the Council of People’s Commissars, V. D. Bonch-Bruyevich,
who pointed out the urgent need for building public baths with
disinfection chambers at Moscow’s railway stations in order to
combat an imminent epidemic of typhus.

The document bears a note by Semashko: “Z. P. Solovyov.
A commission should be set up... to urgently consider the
matter. Dr. Levenson is instructed to take the initiative in
convening a conference.”