TO HISTORY OF DOMESTIC PENITENTIARY HYGIENE
The article presents the historical medical aspects of the development of sanitary care in the domestic penitentiary system; the role of the outstanding Russian scientist, the founder and the first professor of the Department of Hygiene of the Medical-Surgical Academy, a doctor and scientist, public figure, Professor Alexei Petrovich Dobroslavin. For ten years he headed the health care department of the Main Prison Administration of the Russian Empire.