Research On The Prevention And Treatment Of Leprosy In Yunnan During The Republic Of China

Yunnan province is one of the most serious leprosy epidemic areas of China,second only to Guangdong,Fujian and several provinces in south China among the top,belonging to the worst-hit areas.The popularity of leprosy in the history of Yunnan has the characteristics of a long time,a wide range and high incidence and prevalence.The official number of leprosy in incomplete statistics during the period of the Republic of China has reached 7000.The prevention and control of leprosy of local government in Kunming could be traced back to the late Qing dynasty and carried out in Yunnan Jiyao Tang governance period,and have the full implementation in Long Yun governance period.Sanitation show the impact of modernity on the elites,so local government has issued a series of laws and regulations,articles of association,and took the leprosy prevention and control as one of the big four to politics in Long Yun governance period.They made a lot of beneficial attempts of leprosy control.As a typical leprosy prevention and control institutions of local government leading,the jurisdiction of leprosy hospital in Kunming changed again and again and the problem of management had existed for a long time.They had no enough money,food and quarantine.There was corruption problems.In the meanwhile,churchs also focused on the prevention and control of leprosy and conflicted with the government,then pursued cooperation gradually.As a public health problem,social forces interacted with the country about the prevention of leprosy in the public domain,and newspapers,the Chinese association of leprosy also widely involved.The patient's identity in the society and the "stigmatized"problems were worthy of attention.The prevention career of leprosy in Kunming has experienced the Anti-Japanese War period,stagnated but not fatally damaged.It cooperated with organizations such as the American association of leprosy in the late 1940s,scaled up and improved the level of medical.To response the threat of other countries,the local government accepted and assisted the churchs' demends,and made a compromise based on nationalism.The enterprise of leprosy prevention and control reflects the modernization process from one side,connecting with the age and revealing the age characteristics.The country was weak and put local autonomy into practice during the period of the Republic of China.The government partly improved the public health and still was subjected to the turbulent environment and the fragile economy on the whole.Foreign aid couldn't really help to eliminate leprosy.The leprosy control in Kunming was different from the coastal areas.It was harder.The leprosy control in Kunming made a remarkable process after 1949 and achieved the ideal mode that elites and missionaries pursued together.However,it left the largest number of leprosy villages in the country and a series of social problems.