The Epidemic Spread In Eastern Inner Mongolia And The Government's Responses Around The Founding Of The PRC(1947-1954)

In 1945,after the victory of the Counter-Japanese War,the people in Inner Mongolia finally become their own masters again.However,since 1945,the infection of epidemics such as plague,measles,smallpox and dysentery widely spread in eastern Inner Mongolia for several years.The prevalence and spread of these diseases made more people infected in a very short time.What's more,the long-term prevalence and spread of Syphilis resulted in the continual population decline of the minorities in Inner Mongolia.From the founding of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Government to the establishment of P.R.China,different kinds of infections were still spreading in the eastern district of Inner Mongolia.These diseases caused many deaths of the infected but also affected people's daily lives and decreased local production activities;it also hindered the task of supporting battlefronts in eastern Inner Mongolia,and even threatened the stableness of the new-born regime.In view of such situation,the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Government formulated some policies and took specific measures to deal with these infections,and a uniform institution to prevent diseases was founded — that is,the Inner Mongolia Epidemic Prevention Committee.Around the founding of PRC,the CPC Committee of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Government concerned about epidemics all the time,and frequently gave orders to prevent epidemics according to different situations,directing the counter-epidemic work in eastern Inner Mongolia.Local CPC committees and governments in the eastern district of Inner Mongolia also took positive measures to promote the counter-epidemic work.Different ranks of governments in Inner Mongolia mobilized the masses,made propaganda to prevent epidemics,and organized injection activities;they built different institutions of epidemic prevention,trained medical staffs,and improved the prevention system;they critiqued and banned superstitious activities;they also mobilized various sanitation campaigns.All measures above helped people establish healthy habits in their daily life.After the endeavors made by local governments in eastern Inner Mongolia and the works done by people who were mobilized by these campaigns,and with the help of the Soviet Union's medical teams sent to China,the spread of epidemics and the deaths of the infected declined quickly.In 1950s,the spread of human plague was basically under control;the epidemic infections and the deaths caused by measles,smallpox and dysentery significantly declined.All of the above meaned that people in eastern Inner Mongolia finally made great achievements in the counter-epidemic work around the founding of PRC.