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ACCOBDING to the Soviet Union Year Book Press Service, the provisions of the 1937 Plan for the national economy of the U.S.S.R. in regard to the cultural and social services include the following: Science. 924-2 million roubles (about £93 million) for the maintenance of scientific institutions in 1937, as against 797-5 million roubles (£80 million) in 1936. Out of this sum, 245 million roubles (about £25 million) will be expended on general capital construction for the needs of science, to include an expenditure of 40 million roubles (£4 million) on putting up new buildings to house the institutions of the AU-Union Academy of Sciences, and 25 million roubles (about £3 million) for the building of the All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine. Health Protection. A sum of 7,528-1 million roubles (£753 million) for health protection in 1937, as against 5,803-5 million roubles in 1936. This sum includes an expenditure of 1,000 million roubles on buildings. The number of hospital beds in 1937 will be increased to 619,800, as against 564,000 in 1936; maternity beds to 11,078, as against 6,000 in 1936.
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Social Services in the Soviet Plan for 1937. Nature 139, 666 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139666a0
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