The Infectious Diseases and the Mechanism of Prevention and Treatment in GuangXi from 1937 to 1939
Abstract
The infectious disease was really serious in GuangXi from 1937 to 1939, which did harm to people’s health and life. At this period, the epidemic diseases in GuangXi area had a definite regularity in time and space. It is closely related to the factors in GuangXi, including the geographical location, the environment, the economic development, the population distribution and the living environment. Since 1930, government of NewGui promoted the construction of medical and health, and took a series of response measures to the infectious disease, such as developing public health and medical and health with an effort, implementing the preventive method of the epidemic, enhancing the cleanliness in the daily environment, and strengthening the publicity on the hygiene in both city and countryside. All these measures had a positive effect on reducing the spread of infectious diseases. And it reduced the popularity of infectious diseases, so that the morale became stable, and the society became secure. However, because of the objective reasons and the social conditions, the government cannot control the epidemic effectively yet.
Key words：From 1937to 1939, GuangXi, infectious diseases, the mechanism
