The Comment On China's Modern Epidemic Prevention

In Ancient China, the upper class advocates that one should keep in goodhealth ,however,there wasn't the epidemic prevention of the people that was organized bythe government. China's modern epidemic prevention undertaking rose progressively at thebeginning of the 20th century.China's modern epidemic prevention undertaking commenced an undertaking afterthe foreign medical science preach coming to China, and then popularized in some citiesand district as an important content of the new policies in the latter stage of Qing Dynasty,itgot preliminary developed in Beijing national government period and deepened andperfected further after Nanjing national government was founded. After the Opium War(1840-1842), with the increase of the association among China and foreign countries,therising and edifying of the medical science preach and the influences of Western civilizationin the concession, the modern epidemic prevention thought s, ways are gradually approved,admitted and imitated by people and ruler ."New policies of latter stage of Qing Dynasty"regarded"epidemic prevention "asan important function of the country formally .Ministry of Civil Affairs, office(police office)of the policeman were the functional epidemic prevention department at that time. Byutilizing the modern epidemic prevention ways , the Qing Government succeeded in puttingout some medium and small-scale pestilence. Because national epidemic preventionstrength was weak,and the organization was imperfect, and people lacked education, beingstill unable to do what one wishes for the prevailing of the large-scale pestilences, the resultthat the government prevented and cured them was unsatisfactory. The plague in Manzhouprevailed greatly in 1910-1911,though the Imperial Palace of Qing Dynasty put it outfinally, the country's vitality was sapped and its rule was weakened.Less than half a yearlater, the 1911 Revolution broke out, thereupon Qing Dynasty which ruled China for nearly300 years collapsed .In a way, the pestilence had accelerated the old regime's collapse.The National Government of Beijing paid more attention to epidemic prevention.Ithad issued a series of epidemic prevention regulations , decrees,established organizationsas the Central Epidemic Prevention Place ,etc.,and in dependently produced such epidemicprevention products as the vaccine , serum ,etc. The epidemic prevention ability of thegovernment was strengthened gradually, Puting out the plague in Jin and Sui had proved it .In this period,the government's epidemic prevention duty was more clear, the medicalhygiene industry was developed very fast, the hygiene education of the school , facilitywere popularized further,and the propagating for the masses health epidemic preventionmade certain achievements, too . But because of the chaos caused by war year by year,itwas frequent for the government to change and rural society was disordered, a lot ofepidemic prevention regulation systems were not really implemented in the basic unit , thesocial ability to resist epidemic disease was still relatively weak, the malignant epidemicdisease took place while prevailing. After establishmet of the National Government of Nanjing , the undertaking ofepidemic prevention of China had been relatively developed on a large scale. Theregulations, laws of epidemic prevention are developed and perfected further, the full-timehealth and epidemic prevention department extended from central authorities to the countytownship , Spreading and educating popularized in a planned way in epidemic prevention,the reporting system of the epidemic situation was established basically, the physicalexamination enlisted in the armed forces and entering school became convention , thevaccine injection was enforced , public health facilities became the important contents ofthe urban construction, national epidemic prevention had already been adjusted from "worse " after the epidemic disease to " preventing " especially before the epidemic disease.With regaining the Quarantine right , the foundation of quarantine and isolation facilities inthe railway , highway, one intact epidemic prevention system established basically in the1930's . However, because the national government faced the foreign invasion from theoutside and the civil war inside, there were many drawbacks in the epidemic preventionbuilding. This showed: The fund input was insufficient;the strength of epidemic preventionwas of maldistribution, the east was relatively stronger, the Midwest was weaker, a lot ofareas extended the traditional social epidemic prevention means before liberation, big cities...