V. I. Lenin

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ON MEASURES TO PROVIDE THE WESTERN FRONT WITH MEDICAL PERSONNEL AND MEDICAL SUPPLIES
Approve the decision proposed by the People’s Commissariat of Health.
Instruct the Commissariat of Health to take measures to eliminate as quickly as possible the shortage of medical personnel on the Western Front and to see to the urgent implementation of this decision.
Instruct the People’s Commissariat of Health to take special preventive measures against cholera on the Western Front.
Instruct the People’s Commissariat of Health to put the bath-houses in order as quickly as possible and to organise laundries on the Western Front.
Instruct the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic to point out to the Central Board of Military Communications the necessity of urgently sending a laundry from the Sixth Army to the Western Front.
Instruct the Food Commissariat to supply the hospitals of the Western Front with dietetic food.
ON MEASURES TO PROVIDE THE WESTERN FRONT WITH FOOD SUPPLIES
Instruct the Food Commissariat to maintain continuously the supply of the Western Front to the extent of a month’s reserve.
Make it incumbent upon the Food Commissariat to submit to the next meeting of the Council of Labour and Defence a report on the measures taken in this field, in particular, on the dispatch of fats and the delivery of hay from Gzhatsk Uyezd to the Western Front.
The question of the Western Front’s repairing the route for sending for meat is to be referred to agreement between the People’s Commissariat of Railways and the Chief Board for Supplying the Army with Food.
If agreement is reached—submit to the Council of People’s Commissars.
Chairman of the Council of Labour and Defence
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)
Printed from the minutes of the plenary session of the Council of Labour and Defence, No. 116, April 30, 1920.

1920