Drawing on archival documents and scholarly literature, this article analyzes the sanitary-epidemiological situation in Uzbekistan during the Second World War and the impact of infectious diseases on the socio-economic life of the population. It examines the wartime policy of accelerated training of medical personnel, changes in the number and ethnic composition of physicians, and the shortage of specialists in the sanitary-epidemiological service. The article describes the measures taken to prevent epidemics among the evacuated population: isolation wards on evacuation trains, sanitary treatment at evacuation centres, compulsory vaccination and the creation of sanitary-epidemiological teams. Based on statistical data for 1940–1944, it analyzes the dynamics of infectious diseases and shows that, despite these measures, morbidity increased during the war years, while malaria remained the most widespread disease. The article argues that Soviet sanitary-epidemiological policy in wartime was closely linked to the need to preserve labour resources.

public health, hospital, epidemic, Second World War, sanitation, infectious diseases.

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