ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the author, Arthur Newsholme's Soviet Russian inquiries into methods of provision of medical, including hygienic, care for the community. Clinical medicine is a vital essential part of preventive medicine. The greater advance in recent decades has been due to the increasing realisation that this is true not only for diseases communicable from person to person, but also for illness of every category. Even the modern discoveries in nutrition have resulted in part from clinical investigation. They have greatly expanded the possibilities of disease prevention and of a higher standard of health. These more physiological aspects of medicine have had a highly successful application in infant and child welfare work in all English-speaking countries and doubtless also in other countries, of which the classical instance is the prevention of rickets. The chapter presents Arthur Newsholme and Dr. Kingsbury's itinerary to Russia. The chapter also outlines Newsholme's and Kingsbury's inspections of factories, socialist farms and medical centres in Stalingrad.
