19 April 1921

NKZrav, Comrade Semashko
or, if he is absent, to the person fulfilling his duties.

Please inform me whether there have been in Moscow recently (and especially in the last few days) any cases of cholera and other infectious diseases;
how many (if any);
the extent of increase compared to the previous period;
what measures of sanitary cleaning of the city and what other sanitary measures have been decreed (if such decrees have been made) and what have been adopted.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

1921 YEAR 6640