V. I. Lenin

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FROM THE DECISIONS OF THE COUNCIL OF LABOUR AND DEFENCE
APRIL 30, 1920
ON MEASURES TO AID THE WESTERN FRONT
Instruct all People’s Commissars to submit weekly, on Fridays, to the Council of Labour and Defence brief written reports on the actual assistance they have rendered to the Western Front.

* V. I. Lenin expresses agreement with the proposal of the Central Committee Secretariat to give 700 poods of white flour, sent as a gift to the Central Committee by peasants of Shadrinsk Uyezd, Ekaterinburg Gubernia, for the starving.

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, in the shortest possible time, the shortage of medical personnel on the Western Front and to supervise the urgent implementation of this decision.
Instruct the People’s Commissariat of Health to take special preventive measures to combat cholera on the Western Front.
Instruct the People’s Commissariat of Health to put in order, in the shortest possible time, the bathhouses and to organise laundries on the Western Front.
Instruct the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic to point out to the Central Directorate of Military Communications the necessity of urgently sending a laundry from the VI Army to the Western Front.
Instruct the Commissariat for Food to supply the hospitals of the Western Front with dietetic food.

ON MEASURES TO SUPPLY THE WESTERN FRONT WITH PROVISIONS
Instruct the Commissariat for Food to maintain continuously the supply of the Western Front to the extent of a month’s reserve.
Make it incumbent upon the Commissariat for Food to submit to the next session of the Council of Labour and Defence a report on the measures taken in this field, in particular on the dispatch of fats and on the delivery of hay from Gzhatsk Uyezd to the Western Front.
The question of the Western Front repairing the route for the dispatch of meat is to be referred for agreement between the People’s Commissariat of Railways and the Chief Supply Directorate of the Red Army.
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.