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PUBLIC HEALTH
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repeat, depends on peace. There can be no labour or material available for housing until the Red Armies become Labour Armies.

In spite of living in the midst of war, pestilence and famine, these Russian Bolshevists, theorists and dreamers as they are called, are pro'ing they know how to organise and that with idealism they also carry a complete knowledge of all that is needed not merely to govern but to administer the social life of a great nation by the co-operative help of the whole body of citizens.