The Prevalence Of Epidemic Disasters And The Change Of Public Health Consciousness In Fujian And Zhejiang Province During The Republican Period

During the republican period,epidemic disasters were particularly rampant in fujian and Zhejiang proviance.It has important theoretical and realistic significance to analyse the the interaction between the public health system and the change of the public health consciousness.Based on newspapers of the republican period and new local Chronicles, Using the method of literature, analysis of time and space, With annual, disease elements, for the purpose of establishing the plague disaster sequence. In order to reveal the temporal-spatial distribution of epidemic disasters. Fujian and zhejiang have diseases all the year round, summer and fall is more serious, becaue fujian and zhejiang is located in the subtropical monsoon region, has Various meteorological disasters and frequent floods. Epidemic disasters occurred every yeer in the early of republican period, epidemic frequency was 100%, epidemic disaster span was 72.46%. The middle of republican period, epidemic frequency was 100%, epidemic disaster span was 89.86%. epidemic frequency was 100%, epidemic disaster span was 96.38% in the later period, epidemic disasters became more aggravanted.In fujian province, the most serious outbreak is southern and east,In zhejiang province,the most serious epidemic in the middle and lower reaches of the qiantang river. Involved in 11 kinds of epidemic disasters, plague, cholera, smallpox, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis are the most widely popular infectious diseases.Fujian and zhejiang have gradually established a mature health administrative institutions and formulate a series of administrative rules and regulations in the late period. Provincial health administrative authority, the municipal public health administrative institutions, county hospitals, district(township,town)clinics gradually established. Public health service system constantly improved, in addition to the provincial hospital, after 1938, fujian and zhejiang counties gradually established a county hospitals, township health center, district health branch. In addition to gradually perfect the public health department, private clinics, church hospital, overseas Chinese hospital also constitutes the important public health service system in fujian and Zhejiang. In terms of health and epidemic prevention system, It take some measures to environmental health, water and sanitation and other public health work. Quarantine and epidemic prevention system continually get better. Edical colleges and schools and public and private institutions in nurses, midwives and other secondary medical school set up continuously. At the same time, some civil society groups is also important and epidemic prevention.The public health system from scratch, attributed to epidemic disasters, the popularity of plague disaster objectively promoted the fujian and zhejiang area health and epidemic prevention system. Although the epidemic disasters have huge impact on the health system, Such as the cause of the government officials were killed, work system crashes, it is difficult to effectively cope with plague, Large hospitals are overwhelmed, shortage of funds, most people death, Environment worsening, disease continue to be popular. But the epidemic disasters cause humans to deal with the vital challenge actively, For government departments, the epidemic disasters are not only a responsibility, but also need to perform the obligations, Government through continuous expansion of health administrative institutions, to develop the public health system, set up a infectious disease prevention and control of the business, build up relief agencies, forming a temporary and epidemic prevention agencies and so on a series of measures. epidemic disasters and the public health system is a contradiction of the interaction.In the epidemic disasters under the interaction with the public health system at the same time, ublic consciousness of epidemic prevention, the epidemic prevention system of the government, elite and epidemic prevention ideas have a significant change. The ideas of public epidemic prevention from no epidemic prevention to infectious diseases had more in-depth knowledge and understanding; Elite groups get to know the spread of the plague is mainly composed of originate, media, and vulnerable groups of three aspects, so should take steps for effective prevention and control. Government report of legal infectious disease prevention, gradually, isolation, make a diagnosis and give treatment, rehabilitation, formulate rules for the special epidemic prevention system, and constantly improve the public health management, land and sea and land transport system of epidemic prevention, protection of special crowd.