Medical District (The square root of the average area per)

MEDICAL DISTRICT. The square root of the average area per settlement. The average distance of settlements from the district center is obtained by dividing the sum of the actual distances of all settlements from the center by the number of settlements; the average proximity of residents to the center is calculated as follows: the number of residents of each settlement is multiplied by the actual distance of the settlement from the center, and then the sum of all products is divided by the total number of residents in the entire district. In addition to clarifying the average population density of the district, it is also important to determine the index of population concentration or the unevenness of the distribution of residents across the area of various parts of the district. To establish the actual density, the population of each part of the district is divided by the area of each part. The parts are obtained by drawing concentric circles on a five-verst map of the district (uyezd) with the district institutions in the centers, whereby the radius taken for the first part of the district (4 versts) increases with each new circle in an arithmetic progression, such that the area of the center and the concentric circles will relate to each other as 1:3:5:7:9, etc. The indicator of population density in the district, with very rare exceptions, will almost always be the area of the first circle. To compare different districts with each other, it is necessary to take circles of the same radius in all districts. Of these indicators, the most important are: population size, average radius in the district, average proximity of residents to the district, and density. Principles of the work of the Medical District in the USSR. The modern Medical District (unlike the pre-revolutionary zemstvo one) relies in all its work on the active initiative of the broad masses of the working peasantry. The Medical District is the organizer of this initiative in the field of rural healthcare. While the activity of the old zemstvo district proceeded under conditions of severe police nitpicking, constant oppression by the authorities, and, in addition, under extremely restrictive tutelage by zemstvo bureaucrats who feared any progressive undertakings, the Soviet Medical District awakens the lively initiative and creative activity of the rural population in the matter of protecting its health. Furthermore, unlike the pre-revolutionary district, which devoted almost all its attention to the treatment of the sick, being very constrained in its preventive activities, the Soviet district places preventive and health-improving measures at the center of its activity, and all its work, in terms of methods and direction, is of a preventive nature. The rural population takes an active part in the work of the Medical District and in the entire organization of healthcare (through Soviet, party, and public organizations, volost executive committees and village councils, party and Komsomol cells, local branches of trade unions, especially the All-Russian Union of Agricultural and Forestry Workers, women's delegate meetings, committees of peasant mutual aid, cooperatives, and voluntary societies). The Medical District connects, along the lines of sanitary-educational and general cultural work, with the reading hut, the red corner, and the club. An especially important role in the activities of the Medical District is played by health sections (commissions) under district and volost executive committees and village councils, which provide significant help and assistance to the district in its medical, preventive, and sanitary work. Where the location of the Medical District hospital does not coincide with the location of the section (health commission), a commission for the improvement of labor and living conditions (administrative-economic meeting) is organized at the Medical District (for the purpose of involving the population in work to improve the state and activity of the Medical District), consisting of the head of the Medical District, the head of the household, the presidium or authorized representative of the local committee, and a representative of the council, the party cell, the committee of peasant mutual aid, and the cell of the All-Russian Union of Agricultural and Forestry Workers.