Date: 1920-03-03
Source: ru:LS/v38

TELEGRAM TO THE PEOPLE’S COMMISSARIAT OF HEALTH
[March 3, 1920]
Operational
Telegram
People’s Commissariat of Health
Copy to Moscow – Chief Military Medical Administration
Saratov – Algemba
The question has been raised regarding the immediate dispatch [to] the operational line at Algemba under the command of Chief Engineer Budassi:
Saratov, Moscow Region, March 30 – fifteen physicians, thirty paramedics, twenty nurses of mercy, equipped with all necessary supplies, medications, and disinfection chambers, given the complete absence of medical supplies on site and the severe typhoid epidemic. Please provide your urgent response.
Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars Lenin