"What I want to talk about today is about the prevention and control of nutritional diseases." In the courtyard of the township government, everyone built a thatched hut, and there were more than 20 people sitting together, all of whom were health workers (part-time jobs) from each village below. Shao Yuanyi held a small notebook in his hand, stood in front, and talked directly to everyone.

At this time, it was drizzling winter rain outside, and there was water leaking in some places on the roof of the hut, but everyone didn't mind. While enjoying the comfort of a rainy day without having to work, listening to Shao Yuanyi's class - just as listening to stories, many people thought about it.

"We all know that corn, a New World crop, is a grain crop that is resistant to barren, drought and high yield, is the top two choices for many newly established settlements when reclaiming land. It is true that corn has various advantages, and northern planting companies have made many achievements in cultivating and screening high-yield corn seeds. Therefore, more and more newly built settlements choose to plant corn crops in the first two years for a transition. But it has to be said that when corn brings us enough food to fill our stomachs, it also inadvertently brought illnesses to many people." Shao Yuanyi talked to everyone, and heard him say in a slow voice: "Corne erythema (i.e. paloriasis, mortality rate of 70%) is the biggest killer."

"We all know that corn erythema usually occurs in newly established settlements. Digestion, rash, and stupidity are the main symptoms. Seven out of ten people will die, which is very terrifying. The imperial court was not alert a few years ago, but as the corn planting area in new settlements gradually expanded in recent years, more and more people died of this disease, which made the imperial court alert and the Ministry of Health's Department of Health. After careful analysis, it was that, it was caused by vitamin Pippi (vitamin pp). I am not afraid of everyone laughing, and I don't know which vitamin Pippi is. As long as everyone knows, everyone will get erythema without this little thing. This is not a joke. It is a bloody lesson."

"In the newly established settlement, everyone is tired and hard to work. They can only chew some corn in fruits. In addition, the road is far away, the remote location is very frequent, and it is rare for everyone to eat meat, which further aggravates the outbreak of this disease. To be honest, at this point, the Ministry of Health was indeed careless, so that pellagra only took it seriously after the outbreak of many places, but many people were already dead." Shao Yuanyi said this.

A little low: "The dead are gone, we can't say anything more, but the court has decided to cure this disease nationwide, and the treatment method is very simple, that is, eat more oranges, grapefruits, strawberries, lemons, melons, pineapples and other fruits. When I came, I found a large area of ​​wild honey orange forest at the foot of your mountain. This is very good. Eating more of this thing can also prevent corn erythema. The old and young men in Luohan Township are blessed and can eat corn openly in the future."

Corn does not contain vitamin pp, but because it exists in a chemical form, molecular bonds cannot be opened, and eating the above fruits can just open this molecular bond, so that the vitamin pp in corn can be effectively absorbed by the human body. In this way, we will naturally no longer have pellagra.

Now corn dermatosis is in Brazil, southern North America, and Italy, Peru, and New Spain Indians know vaguely how to prevent this disease (ready to eat fruit), but they have never been known by Europeans - the ravages are very serious and a considerable number of people have died. The situation on the east coast is slightly better, but it is not optimistic, because the residents of the new settlements (especially the new Ming immigrants) have had extremely difficult life in the first two or three years - or they are unwilling to spend money even if they have money - often make a living with corn three meals a day, and then use the savings to redeem land, but this often leads to a considerable tragedy.

In the past, few people grew corn in new settlements on the east coast, and this problem was not prominent. However, as northern seed companies successively cultivated a variety of high-yield corn seeds. Almost most of the newly built settlements changed to corn, which can be eaten and used as feed, the situation suddenly became worse. This obviously attracted the attention of the Ministry of Health.

The people from the Ministry of Health were not just for a fresh meal. After the doctors met and conducted research, they finally concluded that they had erythema of corn, so they immediately promoted the treatment methods nationwide. Shao Yuanyi's trip was entrusted by the county health bureau to come to Luohan Township and other newly built settlements for disease control science popularization.

Next, Shao Yuanyi talked about the prevention and treatment of other nutritional diseases, such as anemia, rickets, chorea, and beriberi (except scurvy, the prevention and treatment of this disease is not publicly promoted). At the same time, he also focused on strengthening the nutritional intake of children, because according to the successful experience of the Ministry of Health: the more developed the economy, the better the living conditions, and the more sufficient nutritional intake areas (such as the old urban areas such as the eastern coast), the lower the chance of local children suffering from various diseases, especially nutritional diseases, the lower the mortality rate. Therefore, in order to reduce the abnormal mortality rate of children, local government agencies must try every means to improve children's nutritional level.

Shao Shude's request naturally aroused the sighs of the township government officials next to him. The fact that the superior government made a request but did not clearly state whether it would issue funds was their biggest headache, especially the custodial townships like them that their grandmothers do not love their uncles, and Xihu County is unwilling to spend too much investment in the townships they would be under the jurisdiction at any time because it is not worth it.

Without the funds allocated by the superiors, it would be difficult to effectively implement them, a newly established township that is on the verge of bankruptcy. But they also know that the central government is not rich now and there is a shortage of money. The money here naturally does not refer to gold and silver. In fact, there are a large amount of gold bars stored in the First Prison of the Army, but what's the use? In fact, what is missing in the market is enough physical supplies. There are only 100 big cakes, and you can buy so much for 100 yuan. If you invest more gold and silver and enter the market for 1,000 yuan, you can only buy so much. It also creates inflation for no reason and brings disaster to the economy, which is very unwise.

Many township cadres in Luohan Township came from the Ming Dynasty, and they also knew how great disasters children had caused. In the Ming Dynasty, it was common for children to die in large quantities due to illness, and even children from wealthy families might not survive much. The situation in Europe was very similar, with scary-numbered children struggling on the brink of death and then dying with various diseases.

In the 17th century, human beings were still quite fragile! The officials of Luohan Township had already accepted their fate, but who would have thought that the court in the East Coast wanted to act against the will of heaven and wanted to reduce the mortality rate of children through various means, so that more babies could escape the disease and live healthy to adulthood. At this time, they would no longer be easily defeated by the disease - this simply subverted their outlook on life for the first thirty years.

However, it has to be admitted that such a court is really for everyone's sake, and there is no doubt that children in Peru were subject to tithing taxes for diseases (about one-tenth of local children die every year, and even relatively wealthy Spanish children cannot escape this curse, so they are called "child tithing taxes"), the child mortality rate in the East Coast Republic was maintained to a relatively low level - in the East Coast, a place where East Coast viruses gather, has to be said to be the government's effective response and various disease control measures have effectively played their role, otherwise it would be impossible to achieve this level.
Chapter completed!