V. I.

Lenin

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To:   N. A. SEMASHKO [1]

27. XI. 1919

Comrade Semashko, (1) Please return the enclosed to me with your comments.

(2) Have the facts verified (get responsible persons to
state these facts quickly and accurately above their signatures).

(3) Weissbrot’s plan. Your amendments or counter-plan?

Yours, Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
Written in connection with a report from B. S. Weissbrot dated
November 5, 1919, concerning the supply of doctors for the Red
Army. Weissbrot pointed out that there was a surplus of doctors
in the medical institutions of Moscow and urged the need to call
up doctors and send them to the front. Lenin marked off the
passage in the report which said that some institutions, for instance,
the clinics of the Second Moscow State University, had more
doctors exempted than they had altogether before the imperialist
war, and wrote “N.B.” in the margin and a footnote saying:
“Check this fact = carefully and at once.” On another page, where
Weissbrot pointed to the existence in Moscow of unnecessary
medical establishments, Lenin noted: “how many of them are