Medical care in Russia has developed widely over the last decades. Since the Welfare Board Order has given way almost everywhere, the type of district doctor, the unquestioned executor of power of the "Hospital Council", has been replaced by the type of energetic zemsky doctor. The doctors went to the people to help them with their knowledge, to relieve their physical suffering and to develop them.
Медицинское дѣло въ Россіи за послѣдніе десятки лѣтъ широко развилось. Съ тѣхъ поръ, какъ почти повсюду Приказъ Общественнаго Призрѣнія уступилъ свое мѣсто земству, типъ уѣзднаго лекаря, безпрекословнаго исполнителя власти „Совѣта больницы“, замѣнился типомъ энергичнаго земскаго врача. Врачи пошли въ народъ, чтобы помочь ему своими знаніями, облегчить его физическія страданія и развить его.