Chapter 273 Controlling Mortality

The lack of labor in the colonies was somewhat unexpected to Franz.

Originally, he thought that after so many immigrants, the labor force was enough, but the reality was very slapped. Most of these immigrants were gold diggers, and it was too embarrassing to let them go to work peacefully.

Everyone wants to get rich in one go, unless the dream is shattered, it will be difficult to settle down. Even if they settle down, few people are willing to mine.

Franz does not worry about the shortage of gold miners. It is the business of the mine owners. I believe that these people will be able to solve this problem with their own initiative. If it really doesn't work, I'll dig it slowly, and I'm not in a hurry.

The main purpose of immigration is to open up plantations, establish an agricultural economy locally, and provide raw materials and markets for domestic industrial and commercial production.

Prime Minister Felix said: "Your Majesty, our immigration rate has been rapid, and the labor shortage in the colonies has affected our plans to develop the African continent.

The German region is overpopulated, and a large number of bankrupt people choose to emigrate overseas every year, and a large number of them have to worry about the cost of immigration.

Many immigrants to the United States have to sign labor contracts in advance, and the employer pays the travel expenses in advance. This contract is usually unequal, and everyone is forced to sign it because of their livelihood.

If we promise to reimburse a round-trip ferry ticket, I believe that many people are willing to go to Africa to try their luck, and many people should be left behind. "

Franz thought for a while and said: "It is easy to increase immigration, but how can we control the mortality rate? Although we have established strict health regulations, we have not done a good job in implementing them.

Immigrants going to Africa now have a death rate of 3% due to disease within a year. This number is too high and must be brought down.

We attract immigrants in the past to develop the African continent. Such a high mortality rate will definitely greatly reduce everyone's enthusiasm for immigration. "

Immigrants in the colonies had a high mortality rate, largely due to accidental deaths, of which disease was one of the killers.

Among them, high-incidence infectious diseases, respiratory infections, diarrhea, and malaria are the main ones, so Franz convened hospital experts to formulate epidemic prevention measures at the beginning.

Respiratory infections can be ignored. This disease is mainly aimed at middle-aged and elderly people. The immigrants in the early stage are young and strong. This problem can be ignored. Anyway, the average life expectancy of most countries is less than 40 years old.

Diarrhea is mainly caused by poor diet, and a nutritional package has been specially formulated for this purpose. Of course, only military and colonial government officials can enjoy it at present, and the Lazard government has not yet supervised the eating and drinking of ordinary immigrants.

The virus carriers of up to infectious diseases are local indigenous people. In theory, as long as immigrants are prohibited from close contact with local people, there will be no problem.

With the advent of the industrial age, quinine could be mass-produced after 1850, and the mortality rate from malaria had fallen.

In order to reduce the spread of diseases, for example, mosquito nets, mosquito coils, and insect repellents have all entered the logistics equipment, and were distributed to immigrants free of charge in the early stage.

In theory, if immigrants strictly enforce safety and health regulations, the mortality rate due to disease cannot be so high. Most of the immigrants today are young and strong, and their resistance is much stronger. Under normal circumstances, the mortality rate will not exceed 1%.

Don't look at the difference of just two percentage points, the gap will become larger if the population base increases. If the immigrants are old and weak, the mortality rate will be doubled.

Disease causes only part of the death, and other factors are also considered to complete the immigrant deaths. For example, now, in addition to disease, the gold diggers fighting with people outside is the second leading cause of death.

According to preliminary statistics from the colonial government, the death rate of immigrants in the first year was as high as 5.8%. Such a high mortality rate directly makes the natural growth rate of the local immigrant population negative.

Other accidents, when the local situation stabilizes, can naturally be reduced.

The high mortality rate of the disease has become a top priority. If it is not controlled, the colony population will experience negative growth for a long time in the future, and it will be supported by foreign immigrants.

Can the mortality rate of the disease be effectively controlled? The answer is: yes.

It can be seen from the difference in the death rate of the population of each immigrant base.

The disease mortality rate was controlled at 1.4% in the earliest established New Brook; while the later colonial stronghold in Ghana had a disease mortality rate as high as 3.9%.

The main reason for this situation is that the immigrants in the early stage were all led by the government, and everyone enforced safety and health regulations; the immigrants in the later period entered spontaneously, and the government supervision was not in place.

If this situation does not change, the high death rate will definitely cause panic, and it will be difficult to attract immigrants at that time.

Colonial Minister Josip Jelacic explained: "Your Majesty, the immigrants now come from all over the world and are often found in the jungle, so it is difficult for the colonial government to monitor them effectively.

If our supervision is too strict, some civilian colonial teams may choose to leave their strongholds in other countries. "

Franz said seriously: "If they want to leave, let them leave, and in our territory, we must abide by our rules.

Generalize security rules and enforce them in all colony strongholds. Violators will give me a fine, and those who do not correct will give me a fine to go bankrupt.

In short, no matter what measures the colonial government takes, it must keep the disease within a certain range.

From next year, the disease death rate for immigrants will need to be limited to 2 percent.

If the seven-nation negotiation reaches an agreement, then

The annual mortality rate of immigrants must also be limited to four percent.

Within three years, the annual death rate of immigrants should be suppressed within 3.5%.

The cabinet will pay close attention to the promotions that should be promoted and the dismissals that should be dismissed according to the completion of various regions. If they can't do it, they will replace it with a group of people. We are short of everyone, that is, there is no shortage of people who can be officials! "

If the bureaucrats don't put pressure on them, don't expect them to produce results. Franz also did not arrive at one time, but carried out in time.

At present, the mortality rate of colonial immigrants from British and French countries is basically limited to less than 3%. Of course, the Gulf of Guinea is an exception. The mortality rate caused by going out to find gold mines is too high.

If they are only active in coastal areas, then the target Franz set for them may be three percent.

As for lower, Franz doesn't ask for it. Let's wait for the number of medical staff to increase and the level of medical technology to improve!

In the era of lack of medical equipment, doctors mainly rely on experience and personal knowledge accumulation, and the training cycle of doctors is inevitably long.

Since Franz's accession to the throne, the Vienna government has stepped up the training of medical talents, and the earliest students still have a year to graduate.

In order to improve domestic medical conditions, local doctors have been trained for a short period of time, eliminating the traditional bloodletting therapy and allowing them to accept new medical knowledge.

Overseas colonies really can’t take care of them. Doctors in this era are all middle class, people don’t want to go, and the government can’t force them.

At present, only one hospital can be guaranteed in a colonial stronghold, and the number of doctors in it is usually two or three, plus a few apprentices, and they are open for business.

The problem of insufficient medical resources will take a few years to resolve. From next year, 12,000 rookie doctors in Austria will leave the campus and enter the medical system every year.

Coupled with the apprentice doctors trained by traditional methods, Austria will add 20,000 doctors every year, which can greatly alleviate the problem of insufficient medical resources.

In contrast, the training speed of nursing staff is much faster, training a batch of two or three years, 20,000 to 30,000 people each time.

These people are mainly nurses. In an era when there is a serious shortage of doctors, although they cannot see a doctor, they can still sell and sell medicines according to the symptoms of the patients.

If you make a mistake in judgment and have adverse consequences, then unfortunately, you can only be considered unlucky. This era is so cruel, and the medical conditions are at this level.

Prime Minister Felix bite the bullet and replied: "Yes, Your Majesty!"

After hesitating for a while, he added: "Your Majesty, since we want to cultivate the safety and hygiene awareness of immigrants, let's start from China!

Before, we were just advocating everyone to abide by the safety and hygiene code, but we did not enforce it. It is better to formulate a law and force it to be promoted in the private sector.

As long as everyone develops good habits, then when they arrive in the colony, they will consciously abide by the rules. "

Compared with the high mobility in the colonies and the difficulty in enforcing them, it is much easier to promote safety and health codes in domestic legislation.

It has also been publicized in the newspapers for a long time, and most people have already agreed with the concept of "safety and hygiene", but acceptance is accepted, whether it can be followed is another question.

Now that the implementation of the mandatory legislation is undoubtedly a further promotion on the basis of the previous one.

"Yes, it is also necessary to strengthen domestic safety and health knowledge education."

In Franz's view, this is a good thing for the country and the people. Everyone's compliance with safety and hygiene guidelines is very positive in curbing the spread of the disease.