Chapter 855: Thesis completed! Let’s start a new direction!
Grete's paper took two full days just to write.
In addition to the relationship between the number of passengers/tonnage, mortality, and mortality of various diseases, he also made statistics on a lot of things:
The relationship between the mortality rate of various diseases and the sailing season;
Mortality rates of various diseases and their relationship with departure/arrival locations;
The relationship between the death time of various diseases and the number of sailing days...
Finally, it was proved that the gastrointestinal infection with the highest incidence rate is closely related to the density of people, the number of sailing days, slightly related to the sailing season, and has almost no correlation with the departure location/arrival location;
Scurvy, which has the second highest incidence rate, is most closely related to the number of sailing days and less related to other factors.
"So, the previously estimated method can reduce the mortality rate as much as possible... Are there any other methods, or are there any methods that have been commonly used in current large-scale passenger transportation?"
Grete closed the draft of the paper. You can't create a good method just by working behind closed doors. Public health science is an empirical science and requires field investigation, so where to start...
Grete sorted through his personal network, got up and went out, going to the Third Fleet station. In the last battle to defeat the Treasure Fleet, the Parliamentary Fleet had carried a large number of people, and they had experience!
The entire station was busy and was making preparations for the voyage. But when he saw him coming, William Gunson, chief of fleet logistics, received him warmly:
"Carrying sailors and soldiers in large numbers? We have experience with this! Well, in general, the total number of sailors and soldiers on a small ship under 200 tons cannot be more than 300; for a large ship over 200 tons, the total number of sailors and soldiers cannot be more than one person per ton
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He talked eloquently, his face filled with the pride that naturally arises when he is asked about his expertise:
"If you are carrying war horses, war beasts, or barbarians, there will be a special adjustment algorithm... This is more complicated. I won't go into details?"
"No need to explain it carefully!" Gret nodded:
"I just want to ask, what is the mortality rate when you transport soldiers on a large scale? Is it 10%? Is it 5%?"
"5%!" William Gunson almost jumped up, as if he had heard something terrible, and as if his professionalism had been greatly insulted:
"You are kidding! When transporting soldiers, especially barbarian soldiers, five out of 100 will die. This is absolutely impossible to accept! At most two! It is not because of fighting, but purely in transportation, no more than two out of 100.
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If the passenger/tonnage ratio reaches 1, the fatality rate is kept at 2%? How is this achieved? Grete sincerely asked this senior for advice. William Gunson also knew everything, and he said it in detail:
"Those soldiers are not prisoners! Even if they are in the army, as long as the weather is good, the ship is not rocking, and there are no big waves, they must be allowed to go on the deck at a fixed time every day to do activities. Carry water, help scrub the deck, scrub the cabin... In short, don't do it all the time
Hold it in the bottom cabin!"
Go to the deck regularly, breathe fresh air, and keep the cabin clean. Gretel silently wrote down these few points. He asked tentatively:
"What if you are not allowed to leave the hold? What if... you are really a prisoner, for example, a prisoner of war?"
"Prisoners of war don't have to be locked up forever." General Gunson disagreed:
"At the very least, they have to empty the bucket of excrement themselves, right? They have to carry the food by themselves, right? Otherwise, who will serve them? Of course, there must be some people who want to make trouble, so the mortality rate is higher than ordinary people. But, as long as they don't make too much trouble
However, it will not exceed 5%.”
"By the way, whether they are soldiers or prisoners of war, they are at least level 1 fighters, right?"
"of course!"
The physique of level 1 warriors is much stronger than that of ordinary people. And disaster victims and refugees can be said to be the weakest among ordinary civilians...
Gretel secretly remembered this. If the body is strong, it is difficult for external infections to break through the immune barrier and cause an epidemic. He asked for advice seriously:
"So, what about large-scale transfers of poor people? For example, the victims of this disaster?"
"Take care of them." Chief Gunson suppressed his smile and replied seriously:
"The fleet has also received the task of transporting some civilians. In general, treating them as human beings, not depriving them of food, putting them on the deck regularly, and treating those who are sick as much as possible, or at least moving them to separate cabins will also greatly reduce the cost of transportation.
mortality rate."
"How low can it go?"
"...7%? 8%?"
Commander Gunson hesitated slightly. "The first batch of fleets has just set off and it is still early to return. I only estimate based on experience in previous years. In short, our fleet will definitely die less when transporting people than merchant ships."
Grete breathed a sigh of relief, asked him some more related costs and assessment questions, and said goodbye. He returned to the Mage Tower, supplemented some information and discussion, and submitted it to the review committee:
"...To sum up, the mortality rate during transportation can be effectively reduced through the following methods." The review committee member of Black Crow Swamp looked at the paper and whispered:
"This is the only time he is particularly unlike a person from Black Crow Swamp. All he thinks about is saving people. He is happy if one less person dies..."
Next to him, two members of the medical branch of the Evocation School and the Conjuration School coughed at the same time.
"First, before boarding the ship, the victims will be pre-screened, and those suffering from diseases will be temporarily detained. This screening can be carried out while waiting in line to board the ship... The healer will check whether there are abnormal symptoms such as fever, diarrhea, etc.
Cooperate with [Fortune Observation Technique] to check..."
"Second, when delivering disaster victims to the carrier, the number of people must be strictly controlled and shall not exceed 0.9 times the tonnage. At the same time, the carrier is prohibited from carrying large quantities of goods to leave enough space for the victims..."
"Third, the carrier is required to set aside isolation space and conduct regular health checks for the victims. If there are any abnormalities, they should be isolated in time..."
"Fourth, regularly distribute medicines to cure [Sea Plague]..."
"Fifth, implement a reasonable incentive mechanism..."
"It seems quite reasonable." The review member of the medical branch rubbed his nose and sneezed slightly:
"The money spent is not too much. If the death rate can be reduced to less than 5%, it will save a lot of manpower for the development of the colony. As for the incentive mechanism, what is the best way to do it?"
The abominable Master Nordmark simply skipped over the details of this proposal by saying "I'm not familiar with economic practices" and threw them all to the Parliament!
You have the ability to write a paper, you have the ability to write in detail!
"A bonus? If the number of fatalities is less than 5%, special rewards will be given to the captain and ship's doctor?"
"Deduct money? If there are too many deaths, the council will directly fine you and cancel the next carriage qualification?"
"Half of the freight is paid by the receiving place? The more people who arrive safely, the more freight they get, and it rises in a step-by-step manner?"
The magicians began to discuss each other word by word. Gretel, on the other hand, had already invested in a new research direction.
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