70 years of the Kazan Psychiatric Hospital
S. V. Kurashov
Kazan medical journal ›› 1939, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (11-12) : 108 -110.
70 years of the Kazan Psychiatric Hospital
The public of the Order-bearing Tatarstan, together with the People's Commissariat of Health of the RSFSR, celebrated the 70th anniversary of the oldest medical institution in Kazan—the psychiatric hospital—on June 23, 1939.
The idea of creating a mental hospital in Kazan arose in the 1940s. The commission of the tsarist government "labored" for 18 years on the issue of building a hospital for 150 beds. The hospital was designed as the first of 8 district hospitals planned for construction in Russia. It is impossible, of course, to suspect the government of Alexander II of any special sympathy for the mentally ill of the multinational Volga-Kama region. From a historical review of this issue, it is clear that "the largest cash funds at that time were in the public welfare departments of the Volga region provinces, which is why, as an experiment, it was proposed to build a district hospital, first of all, in the city of Kazan."
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