On the involvement of medical plots in the study of the rural population in the socio-hygienic respect

The question of the socio-hygienic study of the rural population is not a new one. Partly attention was paid to this problem even in pre-revolutionary times, and some leading zemstvo public physicians, along with medical and sanitary services for the population in the narrow sense of the word, were engaged in surveying and studying their sites in different directions. At that time they already understood the social nature of diseases and strove to identify the causal relationship between the disease of the population and the social, household and material environment surrounding it. But the social medical direction of the best representatives of zemstvo medicine, which clearly contradicted the spirit of that time, had no economic prerequisite and therefore could not receive its permission.