Study Of Plague And Its Control In Tongliao Area

In 1947,a serious plague occurred in Tongliao,which became the center of the third plague epidemic in Northeast China and the area with the largest number of deaths.The plague didn’t happen by chance,but by a variety of natural and human factors leded to the Tongliao plague shocked the world.Under the influence of the plague,regime construction came to a standstill and the people’s life was greatly affected.The Communist Party of China leded the plague prevention and control,formulated goals and guidelines,and made a series of prevention and control measures.The epidemic prevention teams of the other places and the Soviet Union went to assist the prevention and control work.At the same time,the plague prevention and control of the broad mobilization of the masses formed a mobilization system of broad participation.With the joint efforts of the People’s Government and the masses,the plague epidemic was successfully eliminated in 1954.The first part of this paper to analysis the cause of the outbreak of the plague.The plague was affected by the natural factors of dry climate and natural plague epidemic focus,intrinsically related to the Manchukoku’s uninterrupted plague disaster and probable Japanese germ warfare before retreated,coupled with the Kuomintang’s failure to control the epidemic,the traditional social customs had contributed to the spread of the plague,comprehensive function of many factors led to a serious outbreak of plague.The second part is the outbreak and spread of plague in Tongliao.The plague was the highest death and the most widely affected in the history of the region,the largest number of death of the third plague pandemic in northeast China,and formed a large gap compared with other counties,presented the number of infections and spread widely.Tongliao,as a combat base and an important transportation route in the northeast battlefield of the Liberation War.Affected by the plague,the front support and regime construction were once stagnated and fell into confusion,and people’s lives were greatly affected.The third part is the Communist Party of China and the People’s Government led the plague prevention and control in Tongliao.At the beginning of the new regime made the plan to control plague,the leading and professional epidemic prevention agencies were established,epidemic prevention teams around came to help.Epidemic report,block and isolation,vaccination and detection and other measures were taken.For internationalism and humanitarian spirit the Soviet Union epidemic prevention team also came to aid.The plague prevention became the important component of the regime construction and promoted regime construction.The fourth part for the mass participation in the plague prevention and control under the mobilization system.The new regime took masses epidemic prevention as the basic policy,established grass-roots epidemic prevention organizations at all levels,established the attitude of epidemic prevention to serve the people.Based on the popularization of knowledge of hygiene and epidemic prevention,epidemic prevention publicity and education combined epidemic prevention with patriotism,inspired the masses to protect their own health and political stability,mobilized the masses to participate in the plague prevention and control campaigns.In the process of participating in the epidemic prevention campaign,the people gradually formed a sense of identity with the new regime.The fifth part is the effect and historical influence of plague prevention and control.With the efforts of the government and the masses,the plague in Tongliao had been effectively controlled.In the process of plague prevention and control,the regime identification was gradually formed,the health administration system was initially established as an important component of the new Chinese regime,and social customs began to develop in a more healthy direction.