The protection of motherhood and childhood in the Ukrainian gubernias of the Russian Empire in the first half of the XIXth Centuries: New approaches and alternative solutions

Abstract

The materials of documents stored in the Kyiv archives (Kiev, Ukraine) investigate the problems of the birth of motherhood and childhood protection in the Ukrainian lands that have been part of the Russian Empire in the first half of the nineteenth century. We have analysed the historical, social, legal admeasurements that have influenced the establishment of the Institute of Motherhood and Childhood and highlighted the group of socially important and for our time questions, such as the functioning of medical districts, the financing of medical institutions, the organization of doctors’ and paramedics’ labour, the administration relationship with doctors etc.