Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1749 Epidemic Prevention
That's all, and then he smelled a stench in the aroma of soybean milk--Liu San was already very familiar with this smell, it was the smell only in barns that raised large animals.There was a small door next to the shop, but when it was opened, it turned out to be a small courtyard. There was a shed in the courtyard, and a small donkey was tied to it, grazing on the trough.Not far from the donkey trough is a stone mill, on which there are still soy milk and bean curd left over from grinding soy milk early in the morning.

Apparently, the soy milk used for the crystal clear tofu on the chopping board outside was made from the soy milk that was ground in this small yard full of donkey dung.

Liu San thought, fortunately, the soy milk must be boiled before making tofu.Now he feels more and more how "correct" it is for the general office to make special offerings for the elders.

He was about to go out when suddenly he rolled his eyes and saw a figure wriggling in the corner of the shed.Frightened, he took a few steps back and said loudly, "Who is it?"

It doesn't matter if he shouted, the followers gathered outside immediately rushed in, shouting loudly: "Who is it? Come out!"

As soon as he drank, a trembling little girl came out from behind the barn, her face was smeared with stove ashes, and there were straw stems hanging on her messy hair.

A coordinator shouted loudly: "Who are you? Why are you hiding here?" They are all veterans of the fast class, and it is a basic quality to show their prestige in front of the common people. The ashes were washed in all directions, making a big face.

The proprietress of the tofu shop owner who registered on the store hurried over to say hello, saying that this was his daughter.

"Your daughter? Didn't you say that she went to her uncle's house and isn't at home?" asked the policeman in charge of registration.

"About... about... I just came back..." The boss was very embarrassed, and hurriedly took out a bunch of money, "This is a kindness, the poor masters took it for tea."

The policeman waved his hand and said, "We don't want money. You must be honest and honest when you cooperate with the government's census! Your daughter is clearly at home, why do you say she is not at home? This is deceiving the government!"

The owner of the tofu shop bent his back and bowed again and again: "Yes, yes, it's all just a little fascination for a while." He secretly groaned in his heart.Today the Australian came to check the household registration. He didn't know the number of roads inside. He was afraid that the overseas barbarians would tell his daughter to hide in the barn and pretend that he was not at home if they saw something wrong with his daughter.Unexpectedly, this Australian is so meticulous in his work that he even comes in to take a look at this smelly barn!This mistake was caught by the servant, but the lion opened his mouth.I don't want a few hundred dollars, it seems that I have to use silver.

With a sad face, he took out a tael of silver from his waist chain and stuffed it into the leader's hand, but was rejected again.Liu San looked at it coldly, and the eyes of several assistants almost burst into flames.Can't help but secretly amused.

Liu San asked the boss to take him to see the well, but the boss didn't understand what he meant.However, seeing that the Australians' Kuaiban repeatedly refused money and did not intentionally make things difficult, I felt a lot more at ease after being surprised.Liu San wanted to see the well, so he took it with him.

The well was in the kitchen behind the shop, but it had a wooden well.Liu San still saw it for the first time.Liu San told him to fetch a bucket of water and tested it with his hands. The water temperature was very low—this is a characteristic of high-quality water.He didn't have any biochemical equipment in his hand, so he could only rely on visual inspection, taking out water samples with glass test tubes and examining them in the sun: the water quality was clear and transparent, with very little suspended matter.I tore off a piece of litmus paper that I carried with me and measured the pH value to be weakly alkaline.Overall, the water quality is not bad.He thought it was no wonder that some people said that tofu must have good water.In ancient times, there was no running water, so a good well was essential.

The boss watched him fiddling, didn't know what he was doing, and didn't dare to ask more questions.Suddenly I heard that the Australian express class asked:

"When did this well come into existence?"

"It's passed down from my family..." The boss didn't know that he suddenly became interested in the well, "This tofu shop has been passed down to the fifth generation." The boss said it proudly.

Liu San nodded, no wonder his family can make tofu.

"The water in your house is pretty good," Liu San asked, "How do people on this street deal with drinking water?"

The boss didn't understand what he meant, and said: "Some people have their own wells, and those who don't have a well, either go to the public well to get water, or buy water."

Some of the public wells are dug by the government, and more of them are dug by citizens raising funds or by wealthy families "doing good deeds".Water quality is not necessarily good or bad, but water does not cost money.It's so good that you can make tea like a well, but it's so bad that you can't drink it except for washing clothes.

The water I bought was picked by the waterman from the Pearl River. Although the river water is turbid, it is running water, not "heavy" like most well water. It can be used after being purified with alum.Even if there are wells available, many people buy river water because the quality of the well water is not good.

The next level is the mountain spring water from Baiyun Mountain, Yuexiu Mountain and other places transported into the city by water truck. It is specially sent to the big teahouses, courtyards and dignitaries in the city for tea cooking and cooking, which is beyond the reach of ordinary people.

"Is the water in the public well here good?" Liu San asked. Traditional tofu production has high requirements on water quality, so the owner of the tofu shop has a considerable ability to distinguish between good and bad water.

"The water from several public wells on Huifu Street can be used for washing and cooking at home, but it can't be used for tea." The boss said.

Liu San nodded, saying that tea cannot be cooked, which means the mineral content in the well water is high.Guangzhou is located on the edge of the Pearl River, and there are springs from mountains such as Yuexiu Mountain in the north, so the groundwater is very rich.However, shallow groundwater is easily polluted, especially in ancient cities with inadequate sewage facilities. The sewage discharged by a large number of densely populated people seeps down, which can easily cause groundwater pollution.This is an important reason why some large northern cities in history have to move a place every time they are rebuilt.

Compared with Guangzhou, which has abundant water sources, it is much better, and Chinese people have the habit of drinking after boiling water.Therefore, the hidden dangers of water supply are not particularly prominent.

Returning to the shop from the kitchen, I saw that the little girl had washed her face and combed her hair.Account is being filled.Liu San took a look and saw that her face was immature, but she looked about fourteen or fifteen years old, probably because she was born in a tofu shop, and her protein intake was higher than that of ordinary people.For some reason, he thought of his son who stayed in Lingao, and Xuan Chun, and couldn't help but feel his heart skip a beat.

Liu San ran around the city for a few days with the census team and got a general idea of ​​the public health situation in Guangzhou.More comprehensive information can only be obtained after the census team collects data.Liu San returned to his office first.

Guangzhou Special City does not yet have a health bureau. He came to Guangzhou with the title of "Ministry of Welfare Health Commissioner", and his office was temporarily set up in Lin Baiguang's Comprehensive Management Office.

Back in the office, Liu San began to sort out the collected information, especially what he had seen and heard these days.According to him, the public health in Guangzhou is seriously unqualified.However, under such a bad situation, there is no record of a "big epidemic" in the compilation of materials provided by the large library.Could it be that the ancients lived in a harsh environment and had strong resistance?

Liu San asked Jia Jue to inquire. Jia Jue said that every year when he "returned to the south", there must be a "epidemic" in the city, and many people died;But most of the dead were poor people, so few people cared.As for small-scale epidemics, it is not unusual to see them in cities.In other words, in this time and space, no one takes seriously an epidemic that kills hundreds of people.

Liu San wanted to ask more carefully, but Jia Jue was not a doctor, so he couldn't provide much information.He said that if Liu San wanted to know more, he could ask the medical officer of the prefectural and county medicine.

Medicine is the state and county medical administration and government hospital. The person in charge of the state department of medicine is called the Department of Medicine, and the person in charge of the county department is called the Department of Training, each with a number of medical staff.Since he is a member of a government-run institution, the common people call him a "medical official".

Since the Tang and Song dynasties, China has had a tradition of setting up government-run medical services at local levels.In the Ming Dynasty, each county had a "medicine" setting. On the one hand, it accepted medical administrative affairs and provided medical treatment at public expense for the officials and workers of the county office.When Hai Rui was the magistrate of Chun'an County, he wrote the "Xingge Regulations" on rectifying the functions of the organs and changing the style of work. Under the title of "Medical Officials' Regulations", there were records of "four doctors".

Guangzhou is the thoroughfare and the capital of a province.There are more than a dozen medical officers in one prefecture and two counties.When Liu San read the reference materials compiled by the Ministry of City and Industry, he knew that the medical officer's business was booming.Because among the medical officials, except for those who hold the seals, that is, codes and training, none of them have salaries, and their income comes from the consultation fees for treating the people.

Although there is no salary, there are many people vying for this position, and they even have to pay bribes to buy it.Hai Rui also said in the "Xingge Regulations": "Medical officials observe the pulse of the disease, understand the nature of the medicine, and use it to benefit the disease of a county. They are close to dona silver, and they want to send them for profit..." In fact, among the medical officials, the palm prints are eliminated. That is to say, there is no salary outside of Dian and training, and the income comes from the medical fees for the people.Because ordinary people always think that public hospitals are more reliable than quack doctors, the business of medical officials is booming.But the doctors who are really capable don't bother to do this. In turn, it is not difficult to imagine the skills of most medical officers.

When Liu San first entered the city, he met the medical officials in the prefecture and county, and wanted to see if he could use this to organize a simple traditional Chinese medicine hospital.As a result, I talked about the content of some books that doctors must read at that time, and some of them were dumbfounded and couldn't answer a sentence.Some people simply haven't even read the "Mai Jing", and they don't know the basic properties of medicine.On the contrary, several books such as "Huang Di Su Nu Heart Sutra" were offered to him immediately after the meeting.There were also those who offered aphrodisiacs... Liu San hated it very much.

Fortunately, a few of them have real talents.Lin Baiguang then sent someone to invite them to have a talk.

(End of this chapter)