ОТЧЕТ САНИТАРНОГО ИНСПЕКТОРА О МЕДИЦИНСКОМ ОБСЛЕДОВАНИИ ТИПОГРАФСКИХ РАБОЧИХ ГОРОДА ОМСКА В 1923 Г.

Abstract

This paper presents an unpublished source that examines the state of health of workers of Omsk printing houses in the period of the new economic policy. At present, the study of the social sphere of the early 1920s, when the origin and formation of social development in Russia took place, is of great importance. The authors review a range of studies devoted not only to the health care system and the influence of the principles of NEP in the formation of social policy of the Soviet government, but also the hygienic characteristics of work and health workers to identify occupations and disease risk, and so on. In the early 1920s, in the context of the difficult economic situation in the country, government agencies carried out activities aimed at studying jobs, the health of employees, and their medical care. During the study period, the work of labor protection was of great importance, the sanitary inspectors of which were engaged in assessing the sanitary and hygienic state of enterprises, as well as examining the state of health of workers together with doctors. The method of historicism was used in the work, which allowed us to analyze the material in accordance with the real meaning of the facts, to consider the report under study taking into account the specific historical conditionality. The published document is kept in the Historical archive of the Omsk region and contains information about the medical examination of workers of the printing industry in the summer of 1923. The report was compiled by the sanitary inspector of labor protection of Omsk based on the results of a survey of five printing houses, as a result of which 254 people were examined. Among the main diseases found in printing workers were: lung and heart diseases, lead poisoning, typhus. The publication is addressed to researchers of the history of industry, the development of health care, the sanitary state of cities and the health of workers in Western Siberia in the early 1920s.