Issue 1 (70)
| SANITARY GUARDIANS IN PRE-REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA | |||
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| Year | 2021 | Number | 1(70) |
| Pages | 30-38 | Type | scientific article |
| UDC | 94(47) | BBK | 63.3(2) |
| Authors | Agafonova Anna B. |
Topic | EPIDEMICS AND FAMINE IN THE HISTORY OF RUSSIA |
| Summary | The article describes the history of creation and activities of sanitary guardians in the cities of the Russian Empire. The study aims to identify organizational and social contradictions in guardianships’ activities, which hindered citizens from involvement in solving local sanitary problems. Boards of sanitary guardians were established by order of local authorities to involve the population in the fight against epidemics and conducting sanitary measures. The sanitary guardians’ activities consisted of timely notification of local authorities about the emergence of epidemics, participation in sanitary inspections of households, and conducting preventive conversations with homeowners about their compliance with public health and urban improvement regulations. The practice of citizens social participation in monitoring the urban area’s cleanliness was intended to level out the contradictions between homeowners and temporary doctors and sanitary executive commissions “alien” to the city community. Still, it often provoked conflicts between sanitary guardians and homeowners who defended the rights to inviolability of their property. In general, public oversight conducted by sanitary guardians has proven ineffective in the long term. | ||
| Keywords | urban environmental history, sanitary control, late-imperial Russia, social participation | ||
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