To the Issue of Healthcare Provision at the Enterprises of Vladimir Region in 1905–1907

Abstract

The article is focused on healthcare at the enterprises of the Vladimir province during the First Russian Revolution. An overview of hospital facilities at the region’s factories is provided. The author examines risk factors for the workers’ health, morbidity in the working environment, and prevention of dangerous diseases. The study reveals a dual character of the healthcare issue. The personalities of industrialists played a big role. At large enterprises owned by rich people, good conditions were created for workers to receive medical care. Hence, a trend was formed in which some factories were ahead of others in this matter. Unfortunately, in the difficult conditions of the crisis caused by the revolution it was impossible to obtain large funds from small enterprises. As a result, industrialists did not have the opportunity to improve medical care at their enterprises. In the period under study, this problem could not but cause strong dissatisfaction among ordinary workers, which forced them to come into conflict with their management, demanding that they correct the situation.