Elementary Exploration Of Epidemic In Hubei & Hunan Area From 1840 To 1937

This article is written based on various data, through research to epidemic in Hubei & Hunan area from 1840 to 1937, probing into the reason why epidemic occurred in this changing historical environment, and when the epidemic situation came forth, the reaction and the exchanging activity of the whole society and the government. The whole article is divided into four parts. The first part gives a brief introduction of the academic research and gives definitions to those important relating research concepts, exhibiting the epidemic research headway status, nailing down such basic elements as object, area and the period of epidemic research. Through the analysis towards the epidemic situation from 1840 to 1937 in Hubei & Hunan area, the second part strives to seek for the rules and the elements causing epidemic from the distributing time and space. The third part expatiates the prevention and cure to epidemic from the government and society of Hubei & Hunan area, researching on the foundation of the epidemic prevention bylaw and institution, carrying through epidemic prevention dissemination, improving living environment and things like that, emphasizing on the analysis to the infection those measures brought to. The fourth part compares the epidemic situation of Hubei & Hunan area to the current public sanitation based on research. The research of epidemic occurred from 1840 to 1937 in Hubei & Hunan area consists of the psychology status, behavior and the government reaction mechanism of each estate and association of the society when epidemic prevailed. This would be used for reference to the currently occurred public sanitation problem such as SARS.