PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCIES ADOPT EPIDEMIC PREVENTION MEASURES

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• Publication Date: May 24, 1950
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INFORMATION 1950
SUBJECT Sociological - Public health, antiepidemic
measures
HOW DATE DIST.J. May 1950
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
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PUBLISHED Mukden; Tientsin; Peiping; Tsingtao; Nanking; NO. OF PAGES 3
Shanghai; Canton
DATE
PUBLISHED 7 - 14 Apr 1950
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PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCIES ADOPT
EPIDEMIC PREVENTION MEASURES
NORTHEAST ADOPTS PREVENTIVE MEASURES -- Mukden Tung-pei Jih-pao, 14 Apr 50
The Public Health Section of the Northeast People's Government has pro-
mulgated preventive measures against bubonic plague and other epidemics. The
first step in pursuance of this program is to mobilize the bubonic plague areas,
such as: Fu-yu and Chien-an hsiens of Kirin; T'ao-an, T'ao-nan, and K'ai-tung
hsiens of Heilungkiang; Wu-tan, Ao-han-ch'1, and K'o-la-chin-ch'i of Jehol;
T'u-ch'uan, T'un-liao, and K'ai-lu of Inner Mongolia Autonomous district; Ssu-
ping of Liao-hsi, etc. All such localities must organize health units, and
build hospitals and other necessary facilities to aid in the prevention of
plagues and epidemics.
The 1950 aim for the masses is for them to exterminate 30 million rats.
Innoculations will be administered to all who live in villages which have had
an epidemic within the last 3 years. The populace are to be educated by the
cadres, teachers, personnel of the medical profession, etc., to realize the full
significance of this anti-p]ague'program. Detailed reports shall be made to indi-
cate the progress of the program.
ESTABLISHES FACTORY-HEALTH EXPERIMENTATION AREA -- Tientsin Jih-pao, 7 Apr 50
The Ministry of Public Health of the Central People's government has desig-
nated Tientsin as the factory-health experimentation area of China. Experiences
gained in the area will be applied in factories throughout China.
Liu Shih-chieh and three other members of the Health Protection Office,
Ministry of Public Health, will go to Tientsin in a few days to make necessary
preparations. Liu stated that a factory-health experimentation office in each
factory, and that the Tientsin Public Health Bureau will help in the experi-
ments.
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ORGANI7:E FREE CLINICS IN SLUM DISTRICT -- Tientsin Jih-pao, 7 Apr 50
In conjunction with the experiments being conducted by the Ministry of
public Health, the third, fourth, and ninth ch'u and the public health office
been
tohwomein the
and childr ntofn
in the stern
exper area, inewhich freermedicaletreatmentewill beplacedgivenwit
poor families.
The Tientsin Public Health Bureau has alreadylassembled 50udifferentom
1400s to of r 8 every medicine and will opeEach clinics
patient is required to register at pubc
offi public ic security ity agency of each ch'u before he or she is permitted
office or a a
to receive medical care.
The bureau has already appealed to public spirited doctors and nurses to
participate in this work. Besides giving medical treatment, the bureau will
also propagandize health practices in the slum districts.
SHANGHAI INFECTED WITH SMALLPOX -- Tsingtao Jih-pao, 8 Apr 50
Tsingtao, 5 April -- The Tsingtao Quarantine Station has reported othe
existence of smallpox at Shanghai and has announced that Shanghai, f
1 April 1950, is considered an infected port. Consequently, it is officially
from Shanghai
required that all sailors and travelers departing for or arriving
must first be vaccinated against smallpox or produce for validation a satis-
factory vaccination certificate.
These re;lulations apply to persons proceeding to Dairen, Ying-k'ou, Ch'in-
huang-tao, Tientsin, Yen-t'ai. Foochow, Macao, and Canton, and also, with extra
precautions, to Hong Kong, Amoy, and Swatow. Vaccination by the Tsingtao Quaran-
tine Station is free.
SHANGHAI ANTIPLAGUE UNIT AIDS FAMINE AREAS -- Shanghai Chieh-fang Jih-pao,
8 Apr 50
Seventy odd persons of the North Anhwei antiplague unit, organized jointly
by the public Health Department of the East China Military Control Commission
e
and the Shanghai Public Health Bureau, have gone to serve the people in the
famine areas in Northern Anhwei Province. About two-thirds of the personnel
of this unit consists of women medical technicians who volunteered for this
service.
ISSUES ANTIPLAGUE DIRECTIVE -- Nanking Hsin-hua Jih-pao, 7 Apr 50
Nanking -- Early this month, the public Health Bureau of the Third Field
direc-
in the East China Military District issued a health eandd anntiplague
tive to various affiliated units to be followed during s moths.
The directive calls for preventive measures against cholera, typhoid
fever, dysentery, acute enteritis, and other infectious intestinal and stomach
diseases; improvement of dies; maintenance of cleanliness inland arround ound barracks;
destruction of blood-sucking insects, maggots,
typhoid fever and cholera.
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80,000 TO BE INOCULATED -- Peiping Jen-min Jih-pao, 10 Apr 50
Peiping -- The Public Health Bureau of the Peiping Municipal People's
government announced that beginning today some 80,000 persons in the city
will be inoculated with Koch's bacillus Tt-o prevent tuberCUJ.osij.
INOCULATIONS TO BE GIVEN ALL ARRIVALS IN CANTON -- Canton Nan-fang Jih-pao,
Canton, 13 April (Hsin-hua) -- To safeguard the health Canton residents
an order was recently issued
thers
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,
o
as well as visitors, ships' crews, an
by the Canton Quarantine ~office ethat all darrival iseases fAccording to announcement,
1. Smallpox -- Wu-Han, Shanghai, Amoy, Swatow, Peiping, Chang-sha, Nan-
b
ay.
ch'ang, Saigon, Rangoon, Calcutta, and Bom
2. Colera -- Calcutta.
3. Spotted fever and typhoid -- Canton, Chang-sha, Tientsin, and Yokohama.
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