Chapter 2260: Myriad Family Born Buddha
In 1895, German pathologist Ledge discovered that airborne germs could infect wounds, and believed that the bacteria-carrying saliva of people's speech would also lead to wound deterioration; therefore, he suggested that doctors and nurses wear a gauze during surgery. Make masks that can cover the mouth and nose. Since then, masks have become an important tool in medical treatment.
"However, Chinese people don't have the habit of wearing masks. It's not easy to persuade them to wear masks!" Shen Long sighed. Before that, China actually had products similar to masks, but at that time, rich people covered themselves when traveling. Dusty, ordinary people don't have the habit of wearing this, and production and distribution are also a big problem.
Hey, in later generations, foreigners don't like to wear masks, but now Chinese people don't want to wear them. It's really a headache, Shen Long continued, "Fortunately, before I left, I had asked the hospital to prepare gauze, medical cotton and other supplies to hurry up." Now that the masks are made, I will ask Yuting to send them a telegram and ask them to ship the finished ones as soon as possible."
After discussing the countermeasures, Shen Long and Wu Lien-teh immediately started to act, contacting the governors of the three northeastern provinces and officials of epidemic prevention departments at all levels, and asked them to order the blockade of the railways in the northeast, prohibit the people from gathering for dinner, uniformly burn the corpses in the epidemic area, and collect materials to make masks , lime water and other necessary materials.
Objectively speaking, from the end of the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, China's public epidemic prevention strength was a process of short-term rise and then rapid decline. Terrible things, officials from all over the world know a little bit about it.
In the period of the Beiyang government, due to the increasing number of returning students and the fact that the Beiyang government has a fairly effective control over various places, its ability in this area has improved compared to the late Qing Dynasty; At this time, who still has the mind to care about the lives of ordinary people? It was not until the new China that this situation was changed.
The Manchu Qing government’s emphasis on epidemic prevention was actually due to the pressure from external forces. Since the plague began to spread, Japan and Russia, while actively preventing the epidemic in their respective control areas, have constantly accused the Chinese government of being incompetent.
The Russian authorities not only regard themselves as the masters of Harbin and strictly restrict the entry and exit of Chinese people; they also threaten the Chinese government that if the epidemic continues to develop, "the army will defend Harbin." Russian Foreign Minister Shachanov argued to German diplomatic representatives that "the only way to stop the plague is for Russia to station troops in the center of northern China."
Although the Japanese were not as blatant as the Russians, they set up the General Administration of Epidemic Prevention in Shenyang under the pretext of protecting the expatriates, and set up branches in Changchun, Tieling, Liaoyang, Andong, Dalian and other places. They showed excessive "enthusiasm" everywhere, so that Even the U.S. envoy believed that they were purely "showing off".
Publications run by the Japanese publicly declared that "China neglected to eradicate the epidemic to show the world that China should be relieved of its responsibilities to Manchuria." It was the Japanese who poisoned the well,
The plague spread, and the workers who cleaned the wells were very busy, and even their wages increased by 4 times.
Under heavy pressure, in early December 1910, the Qing government ordered the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Posts to work together to discuss epidemic prevention measures. The Regent and the Military Aircraft Department ordered the governors of the three eastern provinces and the governor of Zhili to handle epidemic prevention matters, especially reminding to pay attention to traffic epidemic prevention; the Qing government also held a special epidemic prevention meeting in the inner court on December 25, 1910. The guards Ministers, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Posts and Communications, the Ministry of Law, the Ministry of the Army, and the Dali Yuan jointly participated in the study of epidemic prevention countermeasures, and epidemic prevention agencies at all levels began to be established.
At the beginning, they used traditional Chinese medicine treatment methods, such as acupuncture and taking medicines such as bezoar and rhino horn to cool blood and detoxify, but the effect was not obvious. Seeing that the epidemic could not be controlled, they had no choice but to seek help from western medicine. to the northeast.
Now these officials in the imperial court are completely helpless, and they regard Shen Long and Wu Liande as life-saving straws, so when they heard these requests and agreed in a hurry, they may not care about the life and death of the common people, but they care about their own lives. It is very important, I am afraid that the spread of the epidemic will kill me.
Moreover, the threat of those foreigners should not be underestimated, and they must not be given the opportunity to step up their intervention in the Northeast, so officials from all over the country immediately organized people to control the flow of people, and produced masks, lime water and other materials according to the requirements of Shen Long and Wu Lien-teh.
At the beginning, the common people were not willing to wear masks, and they were not willing to spray lime water everywhere. After all, the smell of this thing was not good. Wu Lien-teh was very anxious, but Shen Long easily settled the matter.
He really knows the character of the Chinese people very well, so he didn't force the people to wear them. Instead, he persuaded officials from all over the country to let them wear masks when traveling, and disinfected his house and yamen with lime water. Seeing this scene, those clever big families immediately took action, and now the common people followed suit.
Their thinking is very simple, the lives of those lords must be worth more than ours, and they must have obtained a prescription from a foreign doctor for doing this, so we have to follow suit!
But there are still two issues that have not been resolved. The first is the issue of cremation. The idea that the dead are the greatest is too deep-rooted. In the end, it was the regent Zaifeng's direct decree that suppressed this momentum.
The second is the local people’s distrust of western medicine. No one is willing to come to a western medicine clinic for treatment. Shen Long is also prepared for this. He asked the students in his school to reveal their identities as medical candidates and medical candidates. The position in my heart is not ordinary, with their help, and most of the Chinese medicine doctors in various places are unable to diagnose and treat the plague, more and more patients come here to see a doctor.
This series of measures was still very effective against the plague at that time, especially the use of isolating the flow of people to block the spread, which is the most effective means of epidemic prevention at any time, so the epidemic was gradually brought under control.
On March 1, 1911, the Harbin Epidemic Prevention Bureau issued a notice that the death toll in Fujiadian was zero. Subsequently, Changchun, Fengtian, Tieling and other major cities in Northeast China received good news, and the number of deaths from the plague was zero. The plague, which raged for half a year and killed more than 60,000 people, was declared eradicated.
For a moment, the Northeast wept with joy, and while celebrating their survival, the common people began to thank Wu Liande, Shen Long and others from the bottom of their hearts, and bestowed on them the title of Wanjia Shengfo.