[The use of the experience of hygienic support for the troops during World War II in the training process]

During the Great Patriotic war military medicine have succeeded not only in treatment of servicemen (72.3% of wounded and 90.6% of sick were returned to their duties), but also in preventing mass epidemic outbreaks of infectious diseases among Armed Forces personnel and civilian population. The experience of hygienic support of troops at the combat theater is used in the process of training during military hygiene studies. On the lectures and practical studies on this subject students learn the principles of hygienic support which were worked out by F. G. Krotkov--the former Senior Hygienist of the Red Army during the war period. Despite the hard military situation our country had succeeded in providing the Army with sufficient food supplies. A constant control was realized over the food ration. A special attention was drawn at laboratory control. The food ration had included 115 g of proteins, 80-90 g of ascorbic acid. Vitamin tinctures were widely used. As for water control the main attention was paid to interdiction of epidemic outbreaks.