V. I.

Lenin

385

To:   N. A. SEMASHKO [1]

13.IX.1921

Comrade Semashko:

I have been receiving more and more indications about the abominable state of our health resorts in the Crimea
and the Caucasus: bribe-taking, privileges for the bourgeois and disgusting attitude to the workers, and, what is
important, total disorder in the treatment, and what is most
important, complete lack of supplies.

Please let me have exact information, whatever you have
on hand, at once.

And then let me know in greater detail about the modes of checking up: how many health resorts (out of how many?)
submit correct reports (quantities of foodstuffs for the
number of patients? for the number of personnel, etc.?)—
the number of baths (mud baths), etc.

V. Ulyanov (Lenin )

Chairman, C.P.C.

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Notes:
[1]
Lenin wrote a letter to N. A. Semashko in connection with the
report about the atrocious state of the Crimean health resorts,
which he bad received from Margarita Fofanova (who was on an
All-Russia C.E.C. commission sent to the Crimea by the People’s
Commissariat for Agriculture). In a reply to Lenin on
September 15, Semashko set out the measures being taken by the People’s
Commissariat for Health to improve the work of health resorts
in the Crimea and the Caucasus.