[Hygienic aspects of youth work brigades]

A comprehensive inquiry study was carried out on living conditions, labour and regime in youth brigades. Furthermore, a complex hygienic-physiological assessment was made of the work of the students gone on agricultural brigades on the base of studies on the changes in the cardiovascular system, energy expenditure, nervous-muscular and thermoregulatory apparatuses, as well as on the functional activity of sympathico-adrenal system. The work, done by the students-members of the brigades, is qualified as moderately heavy, and as heavy only in some labour operations. Regardless of the relatively heavy and intensive work, the students are not overtired, because the duration of the working time is shortened on account of the rests, made at their desire. Recommendations are presented for the improvement both of the conditions in brigade camps and organization of labour regime.