PUBLIC HEALTH CAMPAIGNS PROVIDE INOCULATIONS TO MILLIONS, STRESS CLEANUP PROGRAMS

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• Publication Date: August 17, 1950
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
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SUBJECT Sociological -Public health
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Peiping; Shanghai; Soochow
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PUBLIC HEALTH CAMPAIGNS PROVIDE INOCULATIONS
TO MILLIONS, STRESS CLEANUP PROGRAMS
PIANS SUMMER ANTIPLAGUE CAMPAIGN -- Shanghai Chieh-fang Jih-pao, 8 May 50
Shanghai -- At a conference of Shanghai medical personnel, the chief of
the Shanghai Public Health Bureau stated that health propaganda must be in-
tensified to complete a successful summer antiplague program. Chou Lin, chief
secretary of the Shanghai Municipal government, stated that the campaign must
be carried out in the spirit of the slogan, "Prevention is better than cure."
He urged all medical personnel to do their gobs well.
It was also decided at the conference to establish an antiplague direction
office in each ch'u. Each office is to have the following subdivisions: organ-
ization, mobilization, propaganda, preventive inoculation, and health inspec-
tion. The ,job of coordinating the work of ch'u agencies will be directed by
the Public Health Bureau and the Public Security Bureau.
NANKING STARTS ANTIPLAGUE CAMPAIGN -- Shanghai Ta Kung Pao, 8 May 50
Nanking -- On 5 May 1950, the Nanking Public Health Bureau started its
summer antiplague campaign which includes administering preventive inoculations,
spraying DDT, and disinfecting drinking water.
C:^.ton D`.;."ing ?~=i Hay lg5o, the Uablic Health Office of the Kwe.nt~.~
Province People's government held the All-Kwangtung Public Health Conference and
decided on the following program: establish a public health agency in each ch'u
under the Ch'u Special Public Health Section; send three teams from the Provin-
cial Antiplague Unit to work in southern Kwangtung, Pei-Chiang, and Tung-Chiang;
establish a bubonic plague prevention office in southern K~+angtung; restore all
public health agencies, and clinics in various hsiens; distribute the 1950 public
health fuud-o; and Gi ~ani2c ioGlatiOn hGSpitKls oud autiplabti2 iabvTatGiico.
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The conference also decided to restore obstetrics and pediatrics agencies
in Swatow, Hsing-ping, Lung-ch'uan, Kao-an, Mao-ming, and Chang-Chiang; improve
health conditions in factories, mines, and schools; and extend funds to agencies
treating patients suffering from paralysis generalis.
FREE MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR MENIDERS -- Shanghai Chieh-fang Jih-pao, 22 May 50
Shanghai -- In response to the request of the Shanghai General Labor Union
the Shanghai Municipal People's government has issued provisional regulations
which exempt anion members from payment of medical fees. A summary of the reg-
ulations follows:
Inpatients -- Up to 50 percent of the beds in Lao-kung Dispensaries No 1
and No 2 may be used to give free medical treatment to union members. All union
members afflicted with smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, meningitis, and other
such diseases shall be treated free of charge at the Infectious Diseases Hospitals
No 1 and No 2. Women union members who have prenatal difficulties shall be treated
free of charge, in all municipal obstetrics and pediatrics wards. Public or pri-
vately owned factories, which have their own medical faci]ities,, shall treat their
tients before sending them to hospitals. Union members with chronic cases
s~ia~~ -got receive the be~eppit of th se a ulation~. pa ent shall be required Por
the use of expensive mecca cines and ~or }~-day examinatiotYis.
Procedure -- Any union member who is ill may apply to the Labor-Protection
Committee of the factory union. The case will then be submitted to the union
chairmen, who will turn it over to the Labor-Protection Department of the indus-
trial union. The industrial union shall issue a certificate of approval and shall
send it to the Shanghai General Labor Union. The Shanghai General Labor Union
shall send the patient to the proper medical agency. The patient ie required to
show the approval certificate and union membership card for inpatient service
Outpatients -- The method of application for and approval of the outpatient
service is similar to that for inpatients. Free outpatient service for union mem-
bers shall be given at all municipal dispensaries of the Public Health Bureau.
All emergency cases shall receive immediate treatment before going through the
procedure of application and approval.
nFnnTamc var+rTranmTnnr rFRmrurrATFR nF TRAVE7,F.RS -- Hong KOnst Hsing-tao Jih-pso,
23 May 50
Shanghai -- Because of the widespread smallpox epidemic in the Shanghai
area, the Shanghai Railroad Bureau has issued a regulation whereby each traveler
is required to submit a certificate proving he received a smallpox vaccination
before he is permitted to buy railroad tickets for Tientsin, Tsingtao, Canton,
Peiping, or the Northeast.
SHANGHAI INTENSIFIES HEALTH PROPAGANIIA -- Shanghai Chieh-fang Jih-pao, 24 May 50
Shanghai -- To stress the importance of inoculation to river area residents,
the Shanghai Public Health Bureau has chartered trucks and xiver boats, equipped
them with public address systems, and decorated them with large placards. Accord-
ing to the bureau, some 1,410,000 persons in Shanghai have received inoculations
against various diseases this year.
WELCOME BLOOD-FLUKE UNIT -- Nanking Hsin-hua Jih-pao, 23 May 50
Nanking -- Oa 22 May 1950, some 3,000 representatives of medical circles
in the Nanking area gathered at the Jen-min Hall tc welcome back the Nanking
Area's Japanese Blood-Fluke Disease-Prevetttion and treatment Battalion. The co,~-
mander of the Twenty-Seventh A.~'my presented the battalion with a silk flag in
thanks for its work. -
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The unit treated and cured some 10,000 military personnel who were suffer-
ing Prom the Japanese blood-000 soldierseandIofficers n~WurTsai1tuniB,tcoa4?IIander
were administered to some 30, ast months' activities of the
of the battalion, gave a brief report on the p 3
unit.
SMALLPOX BREAKS OUT IN CHEKIANG -- Shanghai Hsin-wen Jih-pao, 23 MaY 50
T,ung_hsiang __ An outbreak of smallpox in Ling-an Hsiang, Chekiang prov-
ince, affected 30 children in early May this year. The Hsien Public Health
Clinic has dispatched two medical personnel to the hsiang to give inoculations.
SOOCHOW HOLDS ANTIPLAGUE MEETING -- Hsin Soochow Pao, 24 MaY 50
Soochow -- On 22 May 1950, some 19 doctors of Chinese and Western medicine
met in Soochow to plan summer antiplague activities.
Yu, deputy chief of the Soochow Public Health Bureau, said that the 1950
summer antiplague program will be carried out in two phases. During the first
period, effortb will oe concentrated on the inoculation of 200,000 people, ex-
cluding pregnant women, babies, and old people; the disinfecting of public wells
with bleaching powder; and the inspection and control of irregularities in food
handling and sanitary measures. The second period will be devoted to a mass
cleanup campaign of houses, streets, etc.
ORGANIZES MUKDEN HEALTH SUBHEADQUARTERS -- Mukden Tung-Pei Jih-pao, 25 May 50
Mukden -- On 12 May 1950, some 1,300 people attended theSubheadquaxters.
ceremony of the Northeast Public Health Workers Association
The preparatory work for organizing the subheadquarters began anlMencIIsienO.
During the ensuing period, 1,513. members were recruited from ~
Dairen, Chin Hsien, Lu-shun Hsien, and Chang-shah Hsien.
In con,}unction with the ceremony, the members and representatives of various
moAical agencies discussed plans to unify work, eliminate~pQmPmPAnsoof servinghe
technical standard of their profession, and cciiioiuo. ~??~ ---- --
the people as a contribution towards production and construction activities. The
meeting ended with the appointment of 19 committee members,.
START SUMMER ANTIPLAGUE WORK -- Peiping Jen-min Jih-pao, 26 May 50
19 May (Hsin-hug) -- Summer antiplague activities in Shanghai, Tientsin,
and Canton have started.
Sh ai -- More than 2,500 medical personnel were mobilized to complete
the inoculation of 3 million people by the end of July 1950. Some 210,000
people received inoculations during 10 - 15 May alone. Drinking water was in-
spected and 98 runninK water facilities were built in city areas where no such
facilities were available heretofore. The municipal governmentUei~orkPend 2,800
miiiioii y~lan to dcfrey the tti~-^-ds needed for the summer antiplag
Tientsin -- The plan for this city is to inoculate one million people against
cholera and to give cholera, typhoid, and paratyphoid inoculations to 500,000 by
the end of September 1950. The Public Health Bureau is also concentrating on
antiplague activities along transport routes, stations, and harbor areas to pre-
vent the influx of diseases from other sectors of China.
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Canton -- Antiplague work in this city started on 22 April 1950. More
than 500 medical personnel are participating in giving inoculations of cholera
and typhoid vaccines. Some 300,000 people were inoculated up to 10 May 1950.
CHECKS BUBONIC PLAGUE IN KWANGTUNG -- Peiping Jen-min Jih-pao, 26 May 50
Canton, 25 May (Hain-hua) -- The bubonic plague epidemics, which have
been ravaging Lien-Chiang and Sui'ch'i hsiens in southern Kwangtung since
January 1950, have been virtually eliminated. More than 70,000 people in Lien-
chiang, Sui-ch~'i, and Hai-k'ang hsiens and the city of Chan-Chiang have re-
ceived preventive inoculations since the outbreak. Rats and fleas were de-?
stroyed, rat holes were plugged, and homes were disinfected in 300 villages.
Two isolation hospitals were established. From late February to early
May 260 bubonic plague patients were confined in these areas. Of the 260 pa-
tients, 219 have recovered or are receiving treatment at present. Forty-one
persons died from the disease.
Some isolated cases of bubonic plague are reported at Yang-Ching in cen-
tral Sui-ch'i Hsien.
GASTROENTERITIS ATTACKS CHILDREN -- Hangchow Chekiang Jih-pao, 26 May 50
Hangchow -- Gastroenteritis has been fatal to four children in Hangchow.
Four other cases are also reported at the Kuang-chi Clinic and the Chekiang
Hospital.
INTRODUCES MODERN OBSTETRICS METHODS -- Mukden Tung-psi Jih-pao, 27 May 50
Mukden -- From October 1949 to 12 June 1950, some 1,835 midwives received
training in modern obstetrics and pediatrics techniques in Heilungkiang Province.
In the areas where new techniques were introduced, the infant mortality
rate dropped considerably. Ii No-ho Hsien, the mortality rate in 1949 was 50
to 60 percent of the births; now it is only 16 percent.
Canton -- Since the promulgation of the summer antiplague directive by
the Public Health Office of the Kwangtung People's government in April 1950,
the office has thus far distributed 1,977,350 cubic centimeters of cholera and
typhoid vaccines, and 214,040 cubic centimeters of cholera and paratyphoid vac-
cines to various areas of the province. The same office also sent 120,000
cubic centimeters of antiplague vaccines to Hainan Island.
NORTIIWEST DISTRIBUTES VACCINES --Hong Kong Wen-hui Pao, '4 Jul 50
Sian, 2 July (Hsin-hua) -- In compliance with the summer antiplague direc-
tive, the Public Health Department of the Northwest Military and Administrative
Couimii.tec scut 240,000 cubic ceutimei:ers of typhoid vaccines, 1,200,000 cubic
centimeters of cholera and typhoid vaccines, 8,000 cubic centimeters of antidiph-
theria and other vaccines, and cotton and alcohol to various areas in Shensi,
Kansu, Ningsia, Tsinghai, and Sinkiang provinces.
Epidemics of smallpox and measles were most serious in Northwest China from
April to June 1950. There were 1,226 cases of measles in Shensi, Kansu, Ningsia,
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and Tsinghai. At the end of April, and outbreak oP measles was reported in
the Uighur settlement in Ha-mi, Sinkiang. Personnel oP Provincial Hospital
No 9 and?the public health department of an unidentified garrison unit treated
and cured 230 patients in 8 days. In Lo-tu Hsien, Teinghai Province, 12,000
people received smallpox vaccinations. The Public Health Institute in Hu-chu
Hsien, Tsinghai Province, has treated 600 patients in the last 6 months.
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