The Study About The Relationship Between Water Conservancy Development And Schistosomiasis Epidemic In Yujiang County,Jiangxi Province

Schistosomiasis in Yujiang County are more serious than any other counties in Jiangxi Province. The epidemic of Schistosomiasis in Yujiang county belongs to hilly and mountainous affected areas. To the eve of the Built of PRC,42villages were destroyed due to schistosomiasis epidemic in this county and more than29,000people lost their lives. It was one of the counties with the largest number of deaths in Jiangxi Province. New government had begun to pay attention to the prevention and control of schistosomiasis in the1950s, and the commissioners were sent to Yujiang County for the investigation, treatment and prevention of schistosomiasis. Under the background of the Great Leap Forward and the carrying out of the schistosomiasis control work in a large scale, Yujiang county firstly announced that had eradicated schistosomiasis. Mao Zedong paid a great attention to this announcement and wrote two poems "Send the God of Plague" to celebrate it, which made Yujiang County become typical in schistosomiasis control at home and abroad. From then on, schistosomiasis control work in China turned out to be schistosomiasis nationwide political movement from a mass movement in Yujiang County. By analyzing the village histories and family histories information, the epidemic history of schistosomiasis here can be traced back to Kangxi, Qianlong period in the Qing Dynasty, with more than200years long. The prevalence of the disease was caused by the destruction of water conservancy in Baita River valley. Therefore in the1950’s, Yujiang County took the management of Baita River as an example and launched a massive hydraulic project like "open new fill old" around this river. In June of1958, schistosomiasis was controlled within Yujiang County. The reason why the control work of schistosomiasis had achieved remarkable progress may relate to the simple epidemic patterns in this area.Based on the analysis of historical archives, the so-called "eradication" in1958actually had not yet reached the standard, more precisely, it was only in several epidemic areas where realized the basic elimination of schistosomiasis, which made the county within the scope of schistosomiasis to achieve effective control and provided effective method for the control of hilly and mountainous affected areas. Specific criteria of schistosomiasis eradication had not yet announced, therefore this propaganda was not too much doubt. In the special background of the Great Leap Forward in1958, the putting forward and announcement of this slogan greatly encouraged the morale of schistosomiasis control, and played incredible role in striving for schistosomiasis control. This is perhaps the real significance about the "eradication of schistosomiasis in Yujiang County".