Abstract

On July 21, 1918, the regulations on the health authorities were published. The new People's Commissariat under the leadership of N. A. Semashko brought together the disparate affairs of public health in the old days. Thus the work of Soviet health care from the very beginning took the direction, which was formulated in the program of the All-Union Communist Party: "The basis of its activities in the field of protection of public health the All-Union Communist Party believes in conducting extensive recreational and sanitary measures aimed at preventing diseases", which distinguished it from the work of health care bodies in pre-revolutionary times. Despite extremely limited financial resources, the new People's Commissariat significantly developed the cause of public health, calling to life such sprouts which had previously found no ground for their development.

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