Chapter 133
Chapter 133.
The two counselor ladies took a long time to regain their composure, though their faces still looked distraught.
Lardy asked Paul, “Lord Earl, I have long wondered why there is a store specializing in selling boiled water in Lakewood, so I guess this was your idea?”
“Exactly!” Paul was smug as he patted his chest and said, “Heating it to a certain degree effectively kills these microorganisms, I call it ‘sterilization’, so I advocate that the people in the territory all drink boiled water.”
It was also after 1949 when the working people of the Celestial Kingdom in another time and space developed the habit of drinking boiled water. In ancient times, plague, parasites and gastroenteritis problems were still common, especially in rural areas where parasites and dysentery were high.
After the founding of New China, the benefits of drinking boiled water were vigorously publicized and promoted, which greatly contributed to the elimination of parasites and the curbing of various gastrointestinal infections.
But for the lower class people in the northwest now, consuming valuable fuel to boil water specifically is still a bit of a luxury, so Paul funded the establishment of boiling water stores, only need to spend a copper plate, you can buy a small bucket full of boiling water.
He also intended to extend this model to all of Arda and Bairdine.
“But, you just made this microscope, right? Could it be that you knew beforehand that there were a large number of microorganisms present in the water?”
Lardy suddenly asked this, and Erin also looked at Paul curiously.
“I ……” Paul was stuck for a moment.
After a moment’s hesitation, he scrambled to explain, “Isn’t it common knowledge that drinking raw water tends to give you diarrhea? I just combined the new discovery I got with the microscope with this common sense.”
Lardy still had doubts, “But the cause and effect of this before and after ……”
Paul immediately interrupted her, “Where’s all the cause and effect? Ah …… I’ve got some serious business to attend to with you guys, really, I’m a busy man. “
Lardy lightly hid her smile and said, “Lord Earl please command.”
Powerful firearms, see thousands of miles of binoculars, fine porcelain, cheap paper, time-saving harvester, full-sail battleships, as well as in front of this subtle microscope, all from the hand of this count, if the inventor is the Imperial City Tower of the Bachelor of those immersed in the knowledge of a lifetime in the old scholars can barely be said to pass, but in front of the earl has just turned fifteen years old, ah, can it be that the world is really born to understand the The person.
Lardy was becoming more and more convinced that the lord was hiding something, but she didn’t intend to look too deeply into it, who didn’t have secrets, such as her own identity.
Paul cleared his throat slightly awkwardly and said, “First thing, I’d like to start a Ministry of Health.”
“A Ministry of Health?”
“Yes, a Ministry of Health. The main task of this department will be to promote a healthy lifestyle in both Arda and Bairdine, in addition to some medical matters.”
“And what is required of us?”
“I need you two scholars to organize the manpower to compile a number of pamphlets and teaching materials to introduce some of the good habits of the upper classes to the common people and spell out in detail the significance of these habits. You have also seen various microorganisms with your own eyes, according to my observation of other objects, they can not only exist in the water, the world we live in is full of them, and far more abundant than in clear water, such as the nail clay that I have purposely set aside for the past few days ……”
Erin looked disgusted, “Please stop.”
“Haha, sorry. With this discovery, some of the causes of disease are explained, and there are definitely some microorganisms we’ve discovered that are capable of causing illness, so we might as well collectively call them ‘germs’. Of course, just like the known symbiotic relationship of certain organisms, it’s quite possible that there are some microbes that are good for our bodies.” Paul didn’t want to come up with terms like bacteria, viruses, fungi, or anything like that too soon, there’s no way to explain it when you say it.
He continued, “Some good habits, like bathing regularly, washing hands before meals, keeping the environment tidy, eating cooked food, and drinking boiled water as we just mentioned, can effectively reduce the number of germs and thus greatly reduce the probability of disease.”
Lardy nodded, “According to you, that is true. We used to do it simply out of comfort, but now there’s an added significance – for the sake of health.”
Paul nodded while saying, “To push these habits on the lower class masses, not just being exclusive to the nobles and the rich.”
Lardy exclaimed, “To care for your own people so much, a lord like you is really rare.”
Erin also cast him an approving glance.
“Nonsense, the people in the territory are valuable laborers, I don’t want them to hang up due to diseases that can obviously be avoided through simple prevention, otherwise who would come to my farm to farm and who would come to work in my factories!”
The two female counselors had a black line, “Count Greiman, I take back what I just said.”
Paul ignored the contempt of the two, and continued, “Given that most of the people in the territory are still illiterate, you need to draw more pictures in the brochures. Pick a few ‘little bugs’ that you are most unwilling to see and draw them, the more exaggerated the better, the more disgusting the better, to scare them.”
“I’ll have Morrison’s propaganda team take your pamphlets all over the territory and have them bring microscopes with them for added persuasion.”
In addition to the propaganda team, he also planned to gift a microscope to Father Anderson, who presided over the church in Lakewood Township; he had heard that in addition to his love of chanting and praying and delving into the art of healing, this priest-san also held a great interest in all sorts of living things, and the church yard was filled with plants of all shapes and sizes by him.
By the way, there should be a few more microscopes in the Vis Academy, so that the students can be exposed to more biological knowledge, and education should start from the youngest age.
“Well, there’s also the knowledge about pregnant women giving birth ……”
He suddenly thought of this point, has sent people around to investigate and statistics, in the past 10 years, the annual neonatal mortality rate in the Northwest Bay Area – per 1,000 live births (born dead does not count) in the number of deaths within the age of one week – up to 200 more than one thousand. -It’s more than 200 per 1,000 births.
It’s an incredibly heartbreaking statistic, and if all those babies had survived, how many more people could have been added to his territory, and how many more workers could have been added to his factories.
“Experienced midwives from all over the land must be gathered, their experience in delivering babies compiled and compiled into a book, and they must also be taught germs – that is, certain disease-causing species of the microorganisms we observe in the microscope – -knowledge of this, and how to sterilize, etc.”
“Things like cutting the umbilical cord with rusty scissors and rinsing the dirt with raw, unboiled water are things that must be strictly discarded.”
Paul spoke wherever he thought of something, a little without a clue, and the two female counselors had to fetch paper and pens to take careful notes.
“We are going to declare war on ignorance and bad habits, and I have decided to start a movement which I call-“
“The New Life Movement!”
(End of chapter)