封城:庚辛东省鼠疫发端延扩下的地方因应

City Lockdown:The Local Strategy to Deal with the Plague in Northeastern China in 1910—1911

庚辛年间东北鼠疫突发,地方自发因应,采取“封城”之策,内域卡口外畛卡关,全面遮断交通,以防疫延。东省一面关闭重要城镇城门,一面在重要交通要道设卡查验。为防止疫情外扩至京津要地,东省还遮断铁路,并在各站口设置防疫检验所查验过往旅客,疑有染疾者即行隔离,无疫症者留观七日无恙方可放行。针对封城后的疫染者,东省亦采取严厉的隔离之策,防止疫情内扩。其封城措置之策,有力阻止了疫情的外扩内延。

In 1910,upon the sudden outbreak of the plague in Northeastern China,the local government positively adopted the policy of“city lockdown”to prevent its spread and contagion.Provinces in Northeastern China closed gates of important cities and set up checkpoints on important traffic arteries.In order to prevent the spread of the epidemic to Beijing,Tianjin and other important cities,the northeastern provinces also intercepted major railway lines and set up epidemic prevention inspection centers at main stations to check passengers.Those suspected of infection were immediately kept in quarantine,and those not infected were kept under observation for seven days to ensure their safety before leaving.As for the infected people identified after city lockdown,northeastern provinces adopted stricter quarantine measures to prevent internal contagion of the plague.The policy of city lockdown adopted by northeastern cities effectively prevented the external spread and internal contagion of the plague.