Organization of territorial medical care in Vologda province (the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries)

The article examines the activities territorial institutions (zemstvo) of the Vologda province for the development of rural medicine and creation of medical. The author studies the territorial doctors' regulation, their education, material support and housing. The situation of territorial doctors, their education, material support, housing is being investigated. The role of district feldshers in the system of territorial-medical organization is being studied; the level of training in the Vologda provincial feldsher school is shown. The territorial institutions laid the foundation of the subsequent medicine development, defined the main directions and further solution ways of public healthcare problems for many decades ahead.