The whole month of May was spent in the hard work of the pioneers. After this month, no new immigration ships came from South Africa, and the Eastern immigration work this year officially ended. By July, the escort fleet heading to Europe will also bring another batch of immigrants (mostly female slaves) and supplies back to the east coast. At that time, the immigration activities organized by the official will be officially terminated.

As the immigration activities came to an end, the autumn soybean harvesting work in the Western Dahuang area was also in a state of war. The company's rental horse-drawn soybean harvester was already in place, and agricultural workers had been raising their energy for a long time before they were officially started. However, at this moment, an unexpected disease suddenly broke out.

On May 25, a shack full of Italian workers suddenly broke out in a shack full of Italian workers, one of the twelve common infectious diseases in the East Coast, which was clearly recorded by the Ministry of Health. After the news came out, the patrol officers immediately dispatched and took strict isolation measures: the houses with the outbreak of this disease were immediately blocked and guarded by the patrol officers, and the sick workers in the house were prohibited from having any form of contact with outside residents until the disease was cured or the prescribed isolation time was reached.

During this period, only one doctor on two farms could enter and exit the house, but the doctor must also comply with strict preventive measures to avoid taking germs out of the ward. To this end, staff from the Health Bureau of the Regional Administrative Office, who urgently rode a horse and rushed to the house after hearing the news, prepared multiple sets of medical burqas and simple disinfection facilities inside and outside the house.

The wages of workers in quarantine will be paid, and all the food and water will be delivered by the patrol guarding them. After the quarantine period expires, all the households in this ward house will be strictly disinfected. Even after the sick worker walks out of the house after the quarantine period, the patrol officer will be ordered to burn the house - a simple shack that is not valuable anyway - so as not to spread any germs to others again.

This is not an alarmist statement, but a big deal. The people of the East Coast have suffered such losses - of course in old settlements. The newly developed land has been deserted for tens of millions of years, and the land that is not inhabited is quite lightly polluted and the number of bacteria is relatively small. Therefore, in these border pioneers, most of the diseases come from newly immigrated residents. Just like the scarlet fever this time, the disease is likely to come from Italian workers introduced by Valentino from the old continent. These people obviously did not show any symptoms when they were isolated at the dock, or they were infected by others while they were at the dock. In short, this infectious disease has never occurred in less than 500 residents in the shrub farm. This terrible infectious disease can only be brought in by others from the outside world.

Compared with the new pioneering points, the incidence of various infectious diseases in the old settlements in the local area is often much higher. The residents of the Eastern Coast Republic are hardworking, tough, fearless, and the harsh natural environment and hard work cannot defeat them, but invisible and intangible diseases are unscrupulously destroying their will. These diseases are mainly prevalent among children and the elderly, such as measles, smallpox, scarlet fever and diphtheria. The main epidemic among young and middle-aged people is yellow fever, and occasionally there will be some terrible harm, dysentery and cholera.

In the second half of last year, a terrible cholera epidemic broke out in Ping'an County in the northern region. The initial source of infection is believed to have come from the Portuguese among the Gelar Mountains in the northern region. The merchant who wholesales of small commodities caused a major disaster in Baoan Township, Ping'an Township, two densely populated townships. A total of 600 people were infected and isolated. At that time, the production of the entire industrial area was affected to a certain extent. Patrolmen urgently dispatched to block the isolated blocks, and the county militia brigade was urgently mobilized, and the scene was no less than a small war.

Doctors and nurses from neighboring counties and townships were also urgently transferred to Ping'an County for help. The flask infusion technology that had just been promoted on the East Coast was applied to the treatment of cholera, but the effect was still not ideal in general. In the past, when there was no flask infusion technology, the mortality rate of cholera on the East Coast was generally maintained at around 75%, but now with this technology, the mortality rate has only been reduced to 66%. A large number of people infected with the virus died one after another, including some skilled and skilled workers - this especially made the county magistrate Qian Hao feel regretful.

After taking emergency measures and the condition in the urban area was suppressed, cholera became popular in the countryside again. Especially in the villages where Guarani hired workers lived, the mortality rate was almost 100%. What's even more terrifying is that whether they did not trust the doctors on the East Coast or were afraid that the East Coast army would isolate these sick villages, the Guarani people concealed the disease. They secretly buried the bodies of the dead outside the village, or asked some sick people to carry a certain amount of water to go to the mountains alone, cut off contact with the village, and attempted to conceal the fact that the disease broke out in this way and waited passively for the disease to disappear naturally.

But such hasty countermeasures are obviously extremely irresponsible. Not only can the disease be concealed, but it has become popular in the surrounding areas on the contrary. Not only are the Guarani people who are weak in resistance to diseases sick and die, but many people are also sick among the residents of the East Coast who settled near them. This is because some of the sick Guarani people fled the village and then brought the disease to other places. Otherwise, with the population density of the East Coast countryside, any infectious disease will not be so easy to spread.

After the incident broke out, the Beiyazihu ​​District Administrative Office sent a patrol to quickly block all roads, intercept all suspicious elements and isolate them on the spot. At the same time, the Army Department ordered the Militia Brigade of Xihu County next door to draw two squadrons to the most serious Meihe Township, and blocked all the villages that were confirmed to be sick and suspected to be sick. Among them, doctors of the East Coast people's own villages were fully stationed in and investigated, while the Guarani village was immediately blocked, and if anyone did not follow, they were shot and killed immediately.

Most of the doctors from the three counties in the Yazihu ​​Basin were mobilized to Meihe Township. They wore strictly disinfected medical burqas and went to the village of Guarani, which was almost completely dead, collected the bodies of the dead and dissected them to determine the cause of their death. At the same time, another team was also sent outside the village to find the bodies of the sick people who were dealt with by the Guarani people. Those who were not buried were buried were buried immediately, and the tombs dug up were reinforced, and finally a special person was uniformly disinfected.

After experiencing this incident, the East Coast health department has increased its efforts to popularize common infectious diseases for urban and rural residents. For example, the terrible cholera has been regarded as an ordinary gastrointestinal disease or acute abdominal disease before, which often causes great disasters. When the condition is diagnosed, things are often out of control. Therefore, appropriate popular science and medical emergency measures are the only way to deal with such malignant epidemics. It is not easy for the small East Coast to accumulate population. If there are so many large-scale epidemics every month, then the country will not have to do anything and will grit its teeth and fight against the disease all day long.

There is another unexpected side effect of this incident. That is, the tolerance of the East Coast residents to the Guarani people has been greatly reduced. They began to reject the Guarani people entering the territory of the East Coast Republic to settle or look for job opportunities. The grassroots East Coast militia, patrol officers and even ordinary villagers were cold-eyed at the Guarani people, verbally insulting or personal attacks, and the government often turned a blind eye to this. Although these Guarani people are also victims of infectious diseases, and those sick Guarani villages and even the whole village died of illness, the East Coast residents who lost their relatives did not think from the perspective of others. They only need to know that these Guarani people are "unknown", causing disaster to themselves, and therefore need to expel them. The situation of the Guarani people seemed to have deteriorated significantly overnight!

In early June, after traveling to the Great Wilderness Farm and shrub farms, staff of the Regional Administration Health Bureau found that the scarlet fever did not break out in other places, which made everyone feel relieved. Now the population of these two farms is increasing, and the number of elderly and children has also increased rapidly. Although the epidemics that repeatedly occur on the East Coast such as measles, smallpox, scarlet fever and diphtheria are not particularly troublesome for adults, once they are popular among weak children, it will obviously lead to a large number of newborns on the East Coast. In recent years, the premature death rate of infants and young children in counties and townships of the East Coast Republic has remained high, and it is not without the "credit" of these recurrent and torture diseases that are tormenting the East Coast people.

Among these terrible diseases, except for smallpox that can be slightly suppressed by cowpox (the effect is not very significant), other diseases are often helpless. A large number of newborns on the east coast cannot escape the torture of various diseases and die every year. Especially those old settlements with relatively large populations, relatively serious pollution, and relatively more frequent population movements, the incidence of diseases is quite high, and large numbers of infants and young children die.

Whenever symptoms appear, patrolmen often face great enemies and strictly limit the patients and their families to their houses to minimize the possibility of infection. Of course, the above is the limit they can do. The East Coast government's research on diseases and bacteria is still very superficial - they don't even have a high-magnification medical microscope, and the research and development of various targeted drugs is progressing slowly. These are the reasons for the frequent occurrence of diseases and the high mortality rate.

Fortunately, the east coast is still a new continent with a vast land and sparsely populated area. If it is in the densely populated old continent, a large-scale epidemic can often damage a city's vitality. In the records of this era, there are many epidemics in areas with tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands (the transmission range is very small, but the mortality rate is very high). Each outbreak of epidemic on the east coast is only a few dozen or a hundred deaths, which fully demonstrates that the government has efficient operation and has responded effectively.
Chapter completed!