全国各地城市及乡村,一年四季均有天花发生,每届冬季及春初流行较广,造成人民生命财产的损失至为重大。根据今年全国极不完整的统计,自一月至八月已有灭花患者四四、二一一人,死亡七、七六五人,实际数字必远较此数为多,天花虽传染剧烈,并无特效疗法,但为一种较易预防的疾病,只要普种牛痘,便可澈底消灭。所以中央卫生部成立之初,即将此病列入必须在定期内消灭的疾病。今年八个月来,据各地案已报来的统计,全国已有四千万人种了牛痘,约占全国人口的十二 All cities and villages throughout the country have smallpox all the year round, with a wider popularity in each winter and early spring, resulting in a tremendous loss of people’s lives and property. According to the extremely incomplete statistics this year, as many as 4 or 21 people expelled flowers from January to August, and they have died of 7,765. The actual figure will certainly be far more than this figure. Although smallpox is severely infected , There is no effective treatment, but as a more preventable disease, as long as universal cowpox, can be eliminated completely. Therefore, at the beginning of the establishment of the Central Ministry of Health, the disease is about to be included in the disease that must be eliminated within a certain period of time. In the eight months of this year, according to statistics reported to various places, there have been 40 million people vaccinated against cowpox in the country, accounting for about 12 of the entire country’s population