Trachoma investgaition and prevention under Japanese rule.case study of school sanitation.

• Main Authors: Ikeda Wakana, 池田若菜
• Other Authors: Wu, Wen-hsing
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/89526392134875205469

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 臺灣史研究所 === 102 === The thesis aims at investigating the prevention and cure of trachoma of Taiwan in Japanese ruled period, focusing on the epidemic of the disease and the student healthy policy at that time. While comparing and contrasting the policy against trachoma in Taiwan and in Japan, the study also summarize the result of the healthy policy. In their early ruling, the colonial government had been suffered from epidemic diseases such as malaria ,pestilence, and cholera; therefore, since 1895, the improvement of the health condition in Taiwan has been the critical administrative work of Japanese Government and Taiwan Governor. A strategically move is to introduce the health system into Taiwan. Trachoma is not the first target of the government, although the epidemic of the disease was noticed while the government collected the statistics of the people with visual impairment in 1990s. As in Japan, the Trachoma Prevention Act was established in 1919, the health policy against trachoma in Taiwan was postponed about 10 years for its emergency is less than other severe diseases. unfortunately, even the Act was introduced into Taiwan later, the government was not active in executing; an evidence is that the competent authority was the schools, not the official, regulating in the Student Health Inspection Rules. According to the news at that time, it's obvious that the epidemic is out of control. Precisely speaking, the school health system in Taiwan was not identical to that in Japan. Some articles in Student Health Inspection Rules had been adopted local features in Taiwan and few articles specialized for Japanese students were not performed in Taiwan. The School Physicians were responsible the school health in Taiwan. Not until 1922, as the School Physician Employment and Working Rules was established, the duty for school physician was on the Public Physician. However, in the said Rules, the requirements for the position were limited on personnel with qualification for "Public Physician, Operating Physician, or Medical Official in Taiwan Governing Office". Apparently, school health were related closely to public health. The establishment of Public Physician System resulted in the investigation and the data-collection on trachoma in 1910, which was earlier than that was executed in Japan. In a nutshell, the school-oriented trachoma policy was not effective enough for the influence of school was limited. The epidemic of the disease was not controlled during the whole Japanese ruled period and the reasons were the lack of ultimate treatment and prevention methods, and the source of infection were unceasingly causing the infectious disease.