Liu San was surprised. Judging from the symptoms, this was typical schistosomiasis. He originally thought that this disease was mainly prevalent in the two lakes, Jiangxi and other places, but he did not expect that it existed in Guangzhou!
Because schistosomiasis is caused by parasitic infection, vaccination is ineffective and relies entirely on manual control. Its prevention and control is very difficult.
The burden on our health clinics is not light. Liu San thought to himself, these infectious diseases basically had special drugs available in the old time and space. But in this time and space, they have almost nothing. The types of self-produced antibiotics are rare and of low purity, and various anti-epidemic and disinfection drugs are also available.
insufficient.
However, he did not dare to show a worried look and just continued to chat with the medical officers. His conversation with the medical officers continued until late at night. Liu San asked the General Affairs Department to let them stay in the Yamen for one night and leave tomorrow.
After seeing off the medical officers, Liu San looked at his notebook, which was filled with words that would shock every health and epidemic prevention personnel:
He couldn't help but worry. How should we carry out this sanitation work? He was now empty-handed, lacking people and things. Before setting off, he received a manual, which was densely marked with rows of numbers, and the plans corresponding to these numbers were shipped.
For the packing boxes of special supplies for the sanitary mouth in Guangzhou, by comparing them with the daily arrival bulletin issued by the Great World Port Administration, you can know how much of the supplies have been delivered and how much is still on the way. This is very helpful for him to carry out specific business.
It was a great help. But without comparing it with him, he knew that this was simply not enough for the situation he was facing. And the other doctor sent had not set off yet, and it was said that he was preparing for the "Provincial and Hong Kong General Hospital".
After thinking about it, the only thing that can and must be done now is to carry out a city-wide sanitation campaign. Try to reduce the breeding places and sources of infection of germs, and eliminate a large number of intermediate hosts. The spread of infectious diseases is closely related to the quality of environmental sanitation. Since they are powerless
"Treatment" can only start from this most basic "prevention".
The next morning after breakfast, he wanted to talk to Lin Baiguang. Unexpectedly, Lin Baiguang was not there. After asking his secretary, he found out that Elder Lin had gone to discuss the issuance of new currency and taxation with people in the finance department. The government immediately
Money is what opens the door. Especially Liu Xiang's package of municipal renovation and construction projects cannot be completed without money.
Although Liu San was anxious, it was inconvenient to disturb him. He asked the retained county clerk to lead the way to Puji Hall.
Since the Tang and Song dynasties, prefectures and counties generally have government-run charitable institutions that are responsible for "birth, old age, illness and death": the Salesian Bureau is called "sheng" and specializes in the adoption of abandoned children; the nursing home is called "old" and specializes in the adoption of orphans; Anji
Fang means "disease" and specializes in taking care of the sick and disabled; Luzeyuan means "death" and specializes in collecting and burying abandoned corpses. One prefecture and two counties in Guangzhou are no exception.
Liu San has read the information on the organization that was given to him by the Office of Comprehensive Management. The government-run charity organization in Guangzhou is called "Puji Hall". This Puji Hall is very large and has multiple institutions: there are men and women who take care of elderly people who have no means of living.
There are nursing homes for the elderly; there is the Qingjie Yuan, which accommodates chaste widows and their minor children who have no source of income; and there is the Gumu Yuan, which accommodates the blind.
Logically speaking, charities have little to do with Liu San's work - this is a matter of the civil affairs system, but the people from the civil affairs office have not yet arrived, so Lin Baiguang temporarily entrusted Liu San to go to Puji Hall and Luzeyuan to check the situation.
Check the hygiene conditions inside.
"To be honest, I don't believe the integrity of the hosts of these government-run charities." Lin Baiguang said when handing him the materials, "Generally the hosts of such institutions are private individuals brought by local officials or controlled by local gentry.
, there are a lot of shortcomings inside. You go and take a look at the situation, and I will rectify it slowly."
The moderators of such institutions are also in charge of miscellaneous duties. However, compared with the medical officers who have neither official positions nor salaries, they are at a lower level. However, there are also quite a few among them.
Both local officials and local gentry are eyeing this benefit, and once the person in charge becomes vacant, there will be a fight.
Puji Hall is not in the city, but in a temple called Huanghua Temple at the northern foot of Yuexiu Mountain outside the Dabei Gate of Guangzhou. This area is mostly filled with tombs, graves, mass graves, and barren tombs.
, sparsely populated, was still a place where bandits were rampant until the Republic of China. When Liu San wanted to go, Wang Sangou sent a squad of soldiers to escort him, and also transferred five or six government officials from the detective team who were familiar with the situation to follow him.
Liu San left the Great North Gate and walked along the official road for a short time before he felt unlucky. All he could see along the road were mountain tombs and mass graves in cemeteries. There were very few houses and fields on the roadside, and there were only a few households.
A dilapidated and extremely poor family. There are many houses on both sides of the road near Liuhua Bridge, but if you look around, they are either coffin shops or the so-called "Ji Zhuang" with a certain yizhuang written on it. Liu San knows that all the things stored in them are
They are the coffins of foreigners who died in Guangzhou. These coffins can stay there for at least half a year, and at most for more than ten years.
Liu San knew that this kind of temporary coffin storage was not only available here, but also in the city. Many temples and guild halls had special courtyards in the backyard for coffins to be stored. Except for those who died in a foreign land, they had to wait for their filial son to "help the coffin return home and the leaves fell to their roots". Big local families
Because people want to choose an auspicious day or a geomantic treasure place to temporarily suspend the spirit without burying it, there are many places where they are stored in temples.
As he walked, Liu San felt a faint stench drifting past his nose from time to time. He opened the sedan curtain and saw that the escorting government officials and soldiers all covered their noses and frowned, knowing that this was not his imagination.
"The incarnation factory of Luzeyuan is located at Liuhua Bridge in front..." A government official whispered, "The wind is going in the wrong direction right now."
Liu San nodded, took out the anti-beast powder he brought with him and wiped some in his nose, and then he felt more comfortable. He then distributed the anti-beast powder to everyone.
Suddenly he heard the sound of dogs fighting and barking not far away. He couldn't help being startled. He followed the sound and saw a group of dogs fighting in front of a deserted grave only a hundred meters away from the road. A government official next to the sedan frowned and said:
"commit a sin!"
Liu San immediately realized what the wild dogs were fighting for, and couldn't help feeling sick, and ordered: "Quickly leave!"
The bearer quickened his pace. The group soon arrived at Huanghua Temple.
This Huanghua Temple was originally a majestic and magnificent temple, but it has been abandoned for a long time. The place where Liu San got off the sedan chair was the Zhengshan Gate, which had long since collapsed. The gate had turned into a pile of rubble, and the broken limbs of the clay sculpture of the Protector Vajra were still visible on the rubble.
However, even though the color has peeled off, you can still see the original exquisiteness of the decoration.
Liu San couldn't help but sigh secretly, walked around the collapsed mountain gate and walked into the temple. He saw that most of the temple's temples had collapsed, and the rest were badly damaged, with crooked walls and leaky roofs. The Buddha statues in each temple had been annihilated. The murals on the walls were decorated with ten colors.
Not a single one was left. In the remaining palaces and corridors, there were old men and women living in twos and threes, all dressed in knotted clothes. They were all unkempt and dirty, just like beggars. They were neither concerned nor afraid of their arrival.
.
There is a slightly tidy palace in the middle, which was originally the place where the principal lived and worked. Later, the Yamen official said that the principal here was originally a relative brought by the prefect Dong.
"Call someone here."
The officer brought the man to him. He was a short, fat man in his forties, with a sallow complexion, and he was quite neatly dressed.
"The villain Mao Xiuyu kowtows to the leader." The visitor immediately knelt down and kowtowed.
"Get up." Liu Sandao said, "Are you the manager here?"
"The person in charge is Mr. Dong. He ran away after the Heavenly Soldiers entered the city." Mao Xiuyu stood up and bowed and replied, "The villain was working for him. Chief, please sit in the room." After that, Liu San and his party were invited.
Let me enter the house.
This house was originally a palace, so the ceiling was very high and the inside was also very large. There was also a public case seat in the middle of the bright room, and there were water and fire sticks, shackles, iron chains on both sides... It looked like a yamen.
Mao Xiuyu let Liu San into the dark room on the side. This is probably where the principal lives and works. Although the furnishings are not magnificent, they are not inferior to those in a middle-aged home.
"Commander, please take a seat." Mao Xiuyu gave up his seat respectfully and brought a bowl of tea, "Commander, you have worked hard all the way and come to our wilderness, there is nothing to entertain..."
"I'm here to take a look, you're welcome." Liu San looked around, which was in sharp contrast to the dilapidation outside, and couldn't help but said, "Those in charge know how to enjoy themselves through hardship."
"Mr. Dong used to work here, but he ran away the next day after the heavenly soldiers entered the city." Mao Xiuyu said, "Actually, he doesn't live here on weekdays. He only comes here on days when money and rice are distributed. He lives here on weekdays.
In the city."
"So you are the one in charge here?"
Mao Xiuyu hurriedly bent over and said with a smile: "You can't be called a manager! I'm just here to do things. I don't dare to make any decisions. I just follow the orders of the person in charge."
"Since you own the land here, let's talk about the situation here first." Liu San picked up the tea bowl and put it down again - God knows what kind of water was used here! There are mass graves everywhere in this area, whether it is surface water or underground water, I'm afraid
It won't be too clean.
"Yes, yes," Mao Xiuyu nodded repeatedly and reported, "there are a total of 2165 orphans, poor, old, sick, blind, and poor women in the Puji Hall registered in this Puji Hall. According to the regulations, each person will be given three Dou of rice per month.
The money is forty-five cents. Kubu is given one horse every three years."
Liu San opened his notebook and jotted down the numbers. Then he asked, "Where does the money and rice come from?"
"One is the government, which is allocated from the county treasury, and the other is charity from people in the city who are kind and charitable."
"Three buckets of rice?" Liu San found it a bit unbelievable. If one bucket of brown rice is made, it costs almost twelve kilograms, and three buckets of rice is thirty-six kilograms. In the old time and space, when grain was supported by vouchers, most people could not make enough.
It’s twenty-eight pounds, and weights above thirty pounds are only enjoyed by manual laborers.
"Yes, three buckets of rice." Seeing that he didn't believe it, Mao Xiuyu said with a smile, "Sign up to receive three buckets of rice for each person - naturally you can't finish it, and the rest is the expenses of the hospital. Let's talk about this Puji
In the position of the head of the hall, who doesn’t come in with rags and rags and go out with horses and robes..." (~^~)