EPIDEMIC CONTROL IN CENTRAL-SOUTH CHINA BW DEFENSE AND ARMY HEALTH

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Sociological - Public health
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EPIDEMII, CONTROL IN CENTRAL-SOU'T'H CHINA
BW DEFENSE AND ARMY HEALTH
On 18 March 1952, the Central-South China Antiepidemic Committee was
organized. Its task is to exercise unified leadership over antiepidemic
work throughout the region, strengthen defensive measures against employ-
ment of bacteriological weapons by American imperialists, exterminate
epidemics, protect the health of army personnel and civilians, and ensure
the development of all phases of construction work."
The 75th administrative conference of the Central-South China Mili-
tary and Administrative Committee, held on 22 March 1952, approved the
establishment of the antiepidemic committee and directed the launching
of region-wide ?ntiepidenic work.
On 23 March 1952, the Central-South China Antiepidemic Committee
issued its first directive and ordered the pursuance of the antiepidemic
campaign in accordance with the "First Stage Working Plan Outline of the
Antiepidemic Campaign In Central-South China for 1952."
The following are articles concerning the establishment of the com-
mittee and the highlights of the 75th administrative conference of the
Central-South China Military and Administrative Committee. Also included
is the entire text of the "First Stage Working Plan Outline."
ANTIEPIDEMIC COMMITTEE SET UP -- Hankow, Chang-chianp, Jih-pao, 20 Mar 52
The Central-South China Antiepidemic Committee was officially inaugurated
at its first meeting on 18 March 1952. Its chairman is Teng Tzu-hui, vice-
chairman of the Central-South China Military and Administrative Committee. The
vice-chairmen are Chao I-min and Chao Erh-lu. Membars are Li Hsien-nien and 21
others.
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The task of the committee is to exercise unified leadership over antiepidemic
work t,;iroughout the Central-South China Region, strengthen defensive measures
against employment of bacteriological weapons by American imperialists, exterminate
epidemics, protect the health of army personnel and civilians, and ensure the de-
velopment of all phases of construction work.
At the inaugural meeting, Chao I-min emphasized the necessity of smashing
the concept of inertia and of developing all phases of antiepidemic work.
DIRECTS LAUNCHING OF REGION.iIDE ANTIEPIDEMIC CAMPAIGN -- Hankow,Oh'ang-chiang
Jih-pao, 24 Mar 52
The 75th administrative conference of the Central-Scuth China Military and
Administrative Committee, held on 22 March 1952, approved the "Summary Report on
Public Health Activities for 1951 in Central-South China," the "Comprehensive Re-
port Concerning Health Plans for 1952," and the establishment of the Central-
South China Antiepidemic Committee.
At the conference, Teng Tzu-hui, vic=-chairman of the Central-South China
Military and Administrative Committee, issued detailed directives regarding pub-
lic health work in the future. The directives, in part, read:
Great results have been achieved during 1951 in health work throughout the
region Naturally, there is still a great disparity between the reconstruction
of health work and services and the needs of the people. The most urgent task
now is to start a region-wide antiepidemic campaign and to strengthen defensive
measures against the employment of bacteriological weapons by the enemy in order
to guarantee the health of the army personnel and the civilians and the expan-
sion of various reconstruction programs.
To achieve these objectives, we must first strengthen our propaganda and
education work. The public health agencies must coordinate with culture and edu-
cation agencies, news egencies, the Hstn-hua She, broadcasting stations, trade
unions, and- land-reform committees, and zpeed up the organization and strengthen-
ing of mass propaganda work. We must publish and distribute epidemic-prevention
literature to the cadres in the rural and urban districts so that they can educate
the masses.
The most basic task is the training of health cadres. Some 50,000 cadres
must be trained in the Central-South China Region in 1952. In training cadres,
their cultural level must be raised. Even morn essential, they must be trained
to have the revolutionary spirit and character necessary for rescuing the dying
and helping the sick and complete devotion to caring for the ill. To facilitate
the training of health cadres, the apprenticeship system must he used and the
entrance examination system must be abolished.
It is also essential to remold the ideology of medical workers. The first
step in this direction is to unite and reform the present Chinese-style medical
practices. We must also expand the establishment of the joint Western and Chinese
style doctors' diagnosis stations devoted solely for the service of the people.
The Industry Department of the Central-South Military and Administrative
Committee must set up a health group, and all comparatively large publicly and
privately operated factories and mines, with 300 or more people, must establish
health stations by August 1952. In addition to the health organs already set
up by the provincial people's governments and administrative offices, each hsien
people's government must establish a health section, with the chief of the sec-
tion acting concurrentl,, as chief of the health cer.ter; and each ch'u people's
government must have health assistants who act as chiefs of ch'u health sta-
tiora. Ch'u with no health stations must establish joint Western and Chinese-
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style doctors' diagnosis stations. Hsiang where land reform has been completed
must establish hsiang public offices or health committees within the hsiang ad-
ministrative committee organs. In this way there will be a systematic organiza-
tion of health work from top to bottom.
TEXT OF ANTIEPIDEMIC DIRECTIVE -- Hankow, Ch ang-chiang Jih-pao, 25 Mar 52
The following is the first directive issued by the Central-South China Anti-
epidemic Committee since its establishment on 18 March 1952:
Central South China Antiepidemic Committee Directive
("Hui Fang" Directive No 1)
The Central-South China Antiepidemic Committee was organized on 18 March 1952
to exercise unified leadership over antiepidemic work in the Central-South China
Region and to strengthen defensive measures against employment of bacteriological
weapons by the American aggressors. The "First Stage Working Plan Outline of the
Antiepidemic Campaign in Central-South China for 1952," which was drafted and
promulgated by the committee on 23 March 1952, shall be consulted and executed
in each locality in accordance with the local conditions, and progress reports
concerning the outline shall be submitted periodically to this committee.
Teng Tzu-hui, chairman
Chao I-min and Cnao Erh-lu, vice-chairmen
Central-So :th CU.ine. Antiepidemic Committee
Enclosure. "First Stage Working Plan Outline of the Antiepidemic Campaign in
Central-South China for 1952"
F=rat Stage Working Plan Outline of the Antiepidemic
Campaign in Central-South China for 1952
Nature and Scope
To deal a firal desperate blow, the American aggressors have employed bac-
teriological we?.nons inside our border to cause epidemics of acute infectious
diseases to livestock, people, end farm crops. To protect the health of army
personnel and civilians, consolidate the national defense, ensure the develop-
ment of economic construction, expand defense work in rear areas, and increase
the Resist America, Aid Korea potential., military and administrative leaders of
all levels shall be personally responsible for arousing and bringing about the
cooperation of army personnel and civilians in launching the region-wide anti-
epidemic campaign, and in strengthening defensive measures against employment of
bacteriological weapons by the enemy.
Organization and Leadership
Under the unified leadership of the Central-South China Antiepidemic C,mmit-
tee, military and administrative leaders of all levels shall be personally re-
sprnsible for delegating to the affiliated health, public security, cultural and
educational, communications, postal, telegraph, telephone, air defense, guards,
agriculture and forestry, and veterinary agencies, military units and people's or-
ganizations, etc., the responsibility for setting up antiepidemic committees, in
the provinces, municipalities, special ch'u, and hsien and antiepidemic centers
and teams in the ch'u, hsiang, and villages.
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Length of Campaign
The first stage of the campaign, shall begin on 1 April and end on 30 June
1952.
Mobilization of idanpower
All personnel 1-i military and administrative health, medical, public secu-
rity, cultural and educational, agriculture and forestry, communications, chemi.
cal industry, veterinary, and other such agencies; personnel in medical associa-
tions, doctors' off!.ces, trade unions, peasants associations, scientific wor' .rs'
s.3sociations, cultural workers' associations, women's federations, science -)pu-
larization associations, youth leagues, students unions, Youth Corps, school
health-maintenance committees, etc., shall be mobilized and organized into prop-
aganda units, antiepidemic units, and relief units and assigned to rural areas,
mining districts, military units, etc., to carry out the antiepidemic campaign
after the completion of a preliminary propaganda and education drive.
Doctors and nurses in medical colleges and schools shall be mobilized to
give antiepidemic lectures and to train antlepidemic workers. In towns and
hsiang, they shall train a large number of junior antiepidemic personnel. Each
province, municipality, special ch'u, and helen shall organize antiepidemic
units to go into different localities tc direct and aid antiepidemic work, and
by utilizing the local health teams as integral units, mobilize the local army
personnel and civilians to complete this important political task.
Propaganda and Education.
1. Propaganda
a. Aim
The aim of the propaganda is: (1) to enhance vigilance among the
masses and to make them fully understand the crimes of the American agressors
for employment of bactericloglcai weapons in Korea and in China, and to build
up among them the "hate-and-wreak-vengeance-on-American-imperialism" state of
mind; (2) to awaken. the masses to the importance of the antiepidemic work, to
make them correctly recognize the hactriologtcal warfare, to wipe out their fear
hysteria ny teaching them antiepidemic knowledge and methods, and to organize
them to launch the antiepidemic campaign under the correct leadership of the
party and the government: i3) to propagandize antiepidemic knowledge and methods
and (4) to arouse the masses to the highest pitch and launch the antiepidemic
campaign.
The following shall be propagandized. (1) the system and method
of reporting on epidemic conditions: (2) the control measures needed and the re-
porting of conditions in areas where the enemy employs bacteria-laden insects
and materials: (3) preventive measures against gastroenteritic diseases (chol-
era, typhoid, paratyphoid, diarrhea), insect-borne diseases (bubonic plague j ma-
laria, epidemic encephalitis, yellow fever, dengue, typhus, relapsing fever),
and respiratory diseases (pneumonic plague, smallpox, influenza, various t'Pes
of pneumonia), and skin diseases (tetanus, anthrax, emphysematous gangrene); the
following shall be emphasized. preventive measures against chlorea, bubonic
plague, epidemic encephalitis, art yellow fever: (4) the techniques of destroy-
ing flies, mosquitoes, rats, and -cc: and (5) the method of protecting water
sources, the method of water purification, food and beverage sanitation, the
control of garbage and nightsoil, and the development of campaigns to clean up
living areas.
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The following propaganda media shall ue used: newspapers, pamph-
lets, posters, blackboard news, wall pictures, comics, cartoon serials, lantern
slides, ballads, music, street dramas, local dramas, operas, plays, speeches,
radio broadcasts, discussion meetings, street propaganda, exhibitions, demon-
strations, and parades.
b. By analyzing concrete conditions, start short-term training classes
for midwives and disinfecting personnel, and train a large number of junior
antiepidemic personnel.
c. Organize training schools for students and activists in factories
and mines to increase antiepidemic personnel.
a. Expand antiepidemic education in medical colleges and schools of
all levels. Give bacteriological warfare lectures.
b. Start intensive research on defense against bacteriological warfare
4n universities and research institutes. Findings and suggestions concerning
bacteriological warfare defense shall be reported periodically.
Reporting OTEpidemic Conditions
1. Organization of lnformaticn Network
a. Fersonnel in air defense, railways, public security agencies, mili-
tary units, health agencies, etc., and people's organizations shall be fully
utilized to collect information. Each office concerned shall compile and submit
the information to a higher office. Maintaining close liaison with air-defense
lookout posts, customs inspection centers in each province, special ch'u, hsien,
ch'u, hsiang, bordar defense area, and port city shall be responsible for gather-
ing information concerning the scope and condition of epidemics in areas where
bacteria-laden insects and materials have been spread by enemy planes and/or
agents.
b. Information agencies of all antiepidemic committo`}I""to!#h
information network8't0'faciritate the gathering of information.
a. Air-defense agencies shall gather and report informations concern-
ing the general condition at the time bacteria-laden Insects and materials were
disseminated. The report shall include the time, location, amount, and scope of
dissemination, the Identification of bacteria-laden insect, and materials, ao l
the conditions after control action has been taken.
b. Public security agencies shall gather and report information con-
cerning the identification of bacteria-laden insects and materials disseminated
by enemy planes and/or agents, the amount disseminate*,, a kW cOnidid40Rs;af-
ter control measures have been taken. They shall also make a survey of each house-
hold and report the number of patients and deaths resulting from the diseases.
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c. Railway agencies shall gather and report information concerning
epidemic conditions among travelers and among people living adjacent to rail-
roads.
d. Military personnel and local health agency personnel shall gather
and report information concerning epidemic conditions in military garrison areas
and local areas.
3. Information Liaison System
a. All information-gathering agencies on lower levels shall report in-
formation to higher levels periodically by telephone and telegram.
b. Antiepidemic committees of all levels and their affiliates shall
gather and report information concerning epidemic conditions to the related in-
formation agencies, which in turn shall be responsible for compiling the sports
and submitting them to higher offices.
c. Each information agency of provincial, municipal, special ch'u, and
haien antiepidemic committees shall conform strictly to the following reporting
system: (1) Epidemic conditions reports shall be submitted every 10 days; (2)
emergency cases, such as the epidemic conditions resulting from enemy-dissem-
inated bacteria-laden insects and materials, shall be reported immediately to
higher authorities by telephone, telegram, or ether such media.
d. Information on epidemic conditions compiled periodically shall be
made available to the agencies concerned.
e. Factual reporting of epidemic conditions shall be made at all times.
Delayed reporting or sending of confused reports will hamper the orderly pur-
suance of antlepidemic work.
4. The masses shall be mobilized to gather information in order to facili-
tate obtaining more reliable and comprehensive data.
Antiepidemic methods
1. Protection of Water Sources and Purification of Drinking Water
a. Cover and enclose wells; organize people to take care of wells; for
community wells, assign persons, on a rotatior basis, to protect and take care
of them; gradually rebuild wells.
b. Increase inspection and purification work at drinking-water plants.
c. Cover and enclose wells located near rivers. Water in such yells
shall be required to be purified since contaminated river water has the tendency
of seeping through sand and soil and infecting well water.
d. Boardwalks used in water-scooping shall be extended into the center
of the river. Water shall be gathered from places where the current is very
rapid.
e. Drink boiled water only, use bleaching powder in water before wash-
ing dishes and utensils.
f. Use bleaching powder to purify water (the instrument in measuring
the chlorine residue in the water shall be maintained at 0.3/1,000,000 at ordi-
nary times and at 0.5/1,000,000 during epidemics).
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g. Drill new wells. Obtaining water from wells will prevent drinking
water from rivers and ponds.
h. When there is an indication that bacteria-laden insects and mate-
rials have been disseminated by the enemy, send samples of water from the con-
taminated areas to the inspection station for analysis. Do not drink water from
contaminated areas until analysis proves the water is drinkable.
2. Food and Beverage Control
a. Following the principle of "first give education and than carry out
control," increase control over foodstuff manufacturing and selling plants and
stores; train and place employees in such plants and stores on health committees
to supervise the maintenance of sanitation measures.
b. Restrictions shall be imposed on the manufacture and sale of food
and beverages as follows effective 23 March 1252: (1) the manufacture and sale
of apricot juice, watermelon juice, agar agar jell,_ colored drinks (rruit juice,
lemon juice), ice shavings, sugar cane juice, and spoiled fruits and vegetables
shall be forbidden: (2) fruit frostings, ice sticks, ice cream, carbonated water,
etc., shall be subject to the following restrictior.,? (a) ice sticks -- the
bacteria content shall not exceed 10,000 per milliliter and no bacillus cola
shall be found In each 1/10 milliliter: (b) ice cream -- the bacteria content
shall not exceed 30,000 per milliliter and no bacillus col! shall be found in
each 1/10 mil.1ilitcr: (cl carbonated water and soda frostings -- the bacteria
content shall not exceed 100 per milliliter and no bacillus cola shall be found
in each 20 milliliters.
c. Guide and aid in the quick turnover of fresh food and beverages;
place strict control over marketing, manufacture, and sale of fresh food and
beverages.
3? Cleanup of Living Areas
a. Utilizing people's basic health agencies draw up health compacts, and
begin campaigns to clean up living area-. In towns and cities, collect garbafye
and dump it in trash barrels or community trash boxes so that sanitation person-
nel, or specially assigned persons, can cart it away to designated garbage dumps.
In heiangs and ts'uns, garbage shall be ma"i into compost piles or buried in
designated places. Encourage frequent washing and drying of clothes and fre-
quent bathing in order to carry out the "four-clean" objective, namely, the
clean household, clean clothing, clean surroundings, and the clean body.
b. Garbage dumps shall be located in marshy areas where garbage can be
pressed down firmly. Garbage shall be covered with muddy soil to prevent breed-
ing of flies and to keep rats away. If garbage is to be used as fertilizer, re-
move useless material, such as brick and stones, and mix useful material such as
feathers and bones, with horse manure and nightscil into compost piles. The
most effective way of eliminating garbage in hospitals is to burn it in inciner-
ators.
c. Household health teams shall select health committees (or draw up
health-evaluation-day systems) to inspect and supervise households in carrying
out and obeying health regulations.
4. Hightsoil Control
a. Privies, pits, and bucket latrines shall be covered to prevent
breeding of flies.
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b. After defecation, the excrement shall be covered with soil, straw
ashes, stove ashes, or fresh .lime to prevent its becoming infested with flies.
c. Set aside definite places for washing nightsoil containers to pre-
vent contamination iof sources of nsanitary disposal drinking water
human excrete and washing ioP ight-d
indiscriminate
soil containers.
d. In fertilizing fields vita nightscil, encourage the method of fer-
tilizing fields after eri prestorage of tsoil ffor ertilizer. The maturation
tends to make nigh
e. Under the principle of "prevent leakage, flies, rats, odors, and
seepage," rebuild privies. Set up strict measures to maintain clean privies.
f. Privies, pits, and bucket latrines shall be rebuilt on higher
grounds to prevent water from seeping into them. They shall also be built at
considerable distances from sources of water.
g. Excreta of sick persons shall be disinfected with bleaching powder,
fresh lime, or caustic soda.
5. Prevention and Destruction of Disease-Borne Creatures
a. Flieb
(1) Cover privies, pits, and bucket latrines; rebuild or discour-
age the building of open-air privies; use boiling water, hot stove ashes, fresh
lime, or borax to kill maggots; if necessary, use 0.5/100 solution of 666 (120
to 150 milliliters per square feet of privy space) or 5/100 solution of DDT (200
milliliters per square feet of privy space.)
(2) Increase control over waste disposal in fresh-fish stores,
restaurants, and fruit and vegetable stores; forbid selling of rotten or alread
sliced fruits or melons not properly protected from flies.
(3) All food and beverage stores shall be required to have wiie, s to pr cloth, glaafiwoo en,aoorr bamboo screenbass or beeused,fly infestation.
-catching fly
Fly traps, fly paper
(4) If personnel is available, maggots in soil and debris adjacent
to privies, pits, and bucket latrines shall be sought out and destroyed.
(5) Fly-prevei,cion and extermination equipment shall be used in
government agencies, sc)oolc, factories, etc., where crowded conditions exist.
b. Mosquitoes
(1) Inspect all water holes, ponds, swamps, etc., mobilize the
masses to destroy mosquito larvae.
(2) Clean up stagnant ditches and canals, fill old pondstan Pud-
has
dles; plug up tree holes; clean areas surrounding houses, empty waer
accumulated in crocks, buckets, etc.; and cover water buckets.
(3) Each ch'u and heiang people's government shall, in cooperation
with
and security
to r prevent breeding of mosquito larvae in firetheir -prevention r
each publekic
basins.
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(4) In epidemic-outbreak areas or areas where bacteria-laden in-
sects and materials are reported to have been disseminated, the water surface
shall be sprayed with DDT, 666, insecticides, Paris Green, or kerosene to kill
mosquito larvae.
(5) Mobilize the people to gather mosquito larvae by using long
poles with net attachment on the end.
(6) Stock ponds, etc., with ducklings, minnows, turtles, etc., to
get rid of mosquito larvae.
(7) U,e native medicine and native methods as much as possible;
hold discussion mee.ings to study methods: kill adult mosquitoes.
(3) Use the following rat poisons: bar um carbonic acid, ca cium
arsenite, sodium arsenite, hung-hai-ts'ung ('j ), an-t'o (fir-`' ),
1080, etc.
(4) Spray rat holes, rat nests, baseboards, wall ourroundings, un-
der beds, etc., with DDT or 666 to eliminate fleas. If environmental conditions
permit, use fumigation methods.
6. Quarantining in Communications Centers
To in,_rease the quarantinint work extensively in the Central-South
China Region, additional quarantine offices shall be set up in cities and towns
located in major communications centers, in port cities, and in administrative
and economic centers. The provisional quarantine centers shall be established
in Wuha:i, Canton, Swatw , Hai-k'ou, and Shen-ch'uan. In Honan, they shall be
established in Che1g-chou, K'ai-feng, Shang-ch'iu (Chu-chi Shih), Lo-yang, Hsin-
yang, Hsu-ch'ang, Chou-k'cu, and Chu-ma-teen: in Human -- Chang-sha, Heng-yang,
Chu-chou, Hsiang-Van, Shao-yang, Ling-ling, Li-ling, Chen Hsien, Yueh-yang,
Liu-yang, Huang Hsien, Ch'a-ling, Yuan-ling, Chang-te, Ching-shah, and I-chang.
In Kiangel, provisional quarantine centers shall be established in Nan-
chang, Kan Hsien, Ping-hhiang, Shang-Jao, Chi-an, Ching-te-Chen, Chang-shu,
Chiu-Chiang, Ch'ac-k'ou, Ying-Van, Nan-cn'eng, P'o-yang, and Ta-yu; in Kwang-
tung -- Kao-yao, Hsin-hui, Fort Bayard, Hsing-ping, Ch'u-Chiang, Mei Hsien,
Chung-shan, Hui-yang, Chiang-men, Tung-kuan, Ch'ao-an, and Chieh-yang: and in
Kwangsi -- Nan-nine. Liu-Chou, Wu-chou, Kuei-lin, Ch'uan Hsiei_, Pai-se, Lung-
t'an (Chen-nan-kusn), Kuei Hsien, Pa-Du, Yu-lin, Wu-ming, Pin-yang, Pei-hai, Ho-
p'u, and Tung-hsiog.
Comparatively large cities which are communications centers shall be
required to set up isolation wards, ant:epidemic hospitals and other necessary
facilities, to take care'of acute infectious-diseases patients and to carry out
isolation medicate treatment to check the spread of epidemics.
(1) In nonbubonic plague areas, arouse the masses to carry out a
mass-scale rat-eradication movement. In bubonic plague areas, carry out inten-
sive flea-extermination campaigns.
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Goals for April, May, and June
1. April
a. Establish antiepidemic organs of various kinds and levels, includ-
ing health and antiepidemic centers.
c. Establish information and reporting networks to facilitate timely
reporting of epidemic conditions.
e. Expand antiepidemic education in medical colleges and schools to
train a large number of Junior antiepidemic personnel.
f. Formulate effective control measures to check epidemics which arise
from bacteria-laden insects and materials disseminated by the American imperi-
alists.
g. Carry out the following preventive vaccination and inoculation
work: (1) complete spring smallpox vaccination work; (2) complete the anti-
cholera inoculation work in Kvangtung, Kwangsi, Canton, etc. and begin anti-
cholera inoculation work in Hunan, Kiangsi, Hupeh, Wuhan, etc. and (3) increase
antibubonic plague inoculation work.
1. Carry out campaigns to clean up living areas; formulate general
sanitation regulations.
3. Pursue fly-extermination and prevention work: improve and protect
sources of water and purify drinking water.
a. Complete anticholera inoculation work in each province and munici-
pality, including Honan. Complete antibubonic plague inoculation work in Kwang-
tung, Kwangsi, and Kiangsi.
b. Increase control over manufacture and sale of food and beverages;
strengthen control over the handling of nightsoil.
d. Begin rat-eradication campaign: in bubonic plague areas, health
personnel shall direct this campaign.
e. If necessary, establish temporary examination stations and anti-
epidemic hospitals.
f. Begin investigation of the varioup level antiepidemic agencies.
3. June
a. Complete antityphoid and paratyphoid inoculation work.
b. Place antiepidemic organs of all types and levels on a sounder ba-
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work.
c.
d.
e.
Establish additional communications quarantine stations in inland
Continue to carry out various phases of environmental sanitation
Continue to investigate and supervise the work of antiepidemic
agencies of all levels.
f. Summarize the work achieved in the first stage (April - June) and
formulate a plan to be carried out during the second stage of the antiepidemic
campaign for 1952.
1. Develop propaganda and education work widely and extensively: by ex-
plaining the danger of bacteriological warfare, by arousing the masses' com-
placency by emphasizing the feasibility of, and the measures for, defense
against bacteriological warfare, by wiping out possible outbreaks of fear hys-
teria among the masses, and by exposing and seeking out special agents who try
to sabotage this propaganda campaign by means of false rumors.
2. The antiepidemic campaign shall be effectively organized, directed, and
planned: its activities shall be thoroughly investigated by organizing special-
ized agencies whose duty it will be to supervise and investigate the antiepi-
demic activities in order to guarantee their successful conclusion.
3. In areas where epidemic outbreaks are reportedly due to bacteria-laden
insects and materials disseminated by American imperialism, each province and
municipality shall develop effective epidemic control measures and stall trans-
mit the experiences thus gained to other localities in the Central-South China
region.
4. Place antiepidemic agencies gradually on a sounder basis. Install ad-
ditional facilities. Train a large number of antiepidemic prrsonnel. Improve
techniques. Mobilize and unite manpower and materials to defend home and coun-
try against bacteriological warfare.
5. At the conclusion of the first stage o:' this campaign, antiepidemic
agencies of all levels shall submit to higher offices a summary of experiences
and activity reports so that they may be studied as references and utilized in
formulating the activity plan for the second stage.
Make a mnveyto find out the rate and amount of production, and the ex-
isting amc"int of medicine end equipment needed in the antiepidemic and disin-
fecting (including anti-insect) work.
a. Each province and municipality shall take an inventory of ware-
houses and markets of each health, medical, agricultural, forestry, industry, and
mine unit to find out the existing amount of antiepidemic and disinfecting med-
ical supplies and equipment.
b. Make a survey of all publicly and privately operated factories and
firms in the Central-South China Region to find the present manufacturing ca-
pacity of biological products and antiepidemic and disinfecting medical supplies
and equipment.
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2. Increase Control Over Medical Supplies
a. Regulate the purchasing of disinfecting medical supplies and make
a qualitative analysis of effective medicine. If necessary, antiepidemic agen-
cies may coordinate the purchasing and distribution work.
and disinfecting ;nedmcallsuppliestand medicine. Punishhmantiepidemic manufac-
turers and/or traffickers in spurious medicines.
3. Stockpile Medicine and Supplies
a. In important towns and. villages, each province and municipality
shall stockpile antiepidemic and disinfecting medical supplies and medicine for
use in case of emergency.
b. Any shortage in medical supplies and equipment in the Central-South
China Region shall be obtained immediately from elsewhere so that they may be
available in case of emergency.
4. Standardize Equipment
By analyzing concrete conditions, each province or municipality shall
standardize medical supplies and equipment, such as uniforms, tools, etc., to
be used by antlepidemic agencies of all types and levels, including antiepidemic
and disinfecting units. These supplies shall be stored in readiness ahead of
time.
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