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Probl Sotsialnoi Gig Zdravookhranenniiai Istor Med. 2018 Sep; 26(5):350-356
The article presents the analysis of elicited and systematized indices of morbidity of acutely contagious diseases in the Empire of Russia and the USSR in 1887-1949. The firmly established in scientific literature opinion about stable epidemic well-being set in the USSR in 1930-1940s is disproved. It is established that in the USSR during this period occurred increasing of morbidity of infectious diseases. The main causes of this occurrence are demonstrated.