Research On Epidemic Prevention Work In Guiyang During The Anti-Japanese War (1938-1945)

During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression,the continuous war and the exile of people led to severe plagues in Guiyang.The Kuomintang government,which protects and accompanies the capital of Chongqing,pays more and more attention to the health construction of Guizhou,the rear of the southwest.Guiyang Health Office was established in 1938,marking the city’s health and epidemic prevention work with a unified management organization.The organization was later renamed Guiyang Municipal Health Bureau,and from 1938 to 1945,the epidemic situation in Guizhou was managed and recorded in a unified manner.Under the leadership of the National Government,Guiyang New Life Promotion Association has also actively carried out anti-epidemic activities.At the same time,social groups and non-governmental organizations in Guiyang also actively participated in health rescue,material collection,and epidemic prevention propaganda.It was the organic combination of government governance and civil society forces that jointly built a relatively effective epidemic prevention system for the severe epidemics in Guiyang after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War.On the one hand,the author describes the basic situation of the epidemic in Guiyang from 1938 to 1945 from a large number of archives of the Republic of China and government reports,and on the other hand,from the perspective of social history,I try to discuss how the main civil society forces in Guiyang were mobilized and actively Participate in the process and role of epidemic prevention and anti-epidemic work.Through research,it is found that although there are certain defects and deficiencies in the epidemic prevention work in Guiyang during the war.However,it still created a unique Guiyang epidemic prevention experience,reflecting the characteristics of individual participation and group cooperation.It is these civil society forces that actively participated in the epidemic prevention in Guiyang,and jointly built an epidemic prevention barrier for Guiyang with the National Government.The wartime medical staff of the Ambulance Corps of the Red Cross Society of China and the teachers and students of the medical school who relocated to Guiyang have become important forces in the fight against the epidemic.The Guiyang Chamber of Commerce and the Huayang Charity Relief Association have played a role in mobilizing local society and individuals to actively provide disaster relief.,and Chinese medicine prevention and treatment has become an indispensable part of the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases.Through effective organization and mobilization of relatively scattered social forces,the concept of epidemic prevention has been transformed,the awareness of epidemic prevention has been enhanced,and the treatment situation has also been improved.Through the research on the epidemic prevention work in Guiyang during the war of resistance,it provides experience and lessons for how to effectively conduct social mobilization in my country’s epidemic prevention work under the new situation.