[A type analysis of the statutory infectious diseases in the Republican period]

In the current academic circle, there are different opinions about the types of the statutory infectious diseases in the Republican period, including the nine-, ten-, eleven- and thirteen-type hypotheses being the most popular. They are different not only on the diseases types, but also about the time of its announcement. This article argues that there were eight kinds of statutory infectious diseases in 1916, i.e. cholera, dysentery, typhoid, smallpox, diphtheria, scarlatina,plague, and typhus; nine in 1928, with cerebrospinal meningitis being added; ten in 1944, with relapsing fever being added; after that, there were no changes. The appointed infectious diseases were initially relapsing fever and malaria; when the relapsing fever became the statutory one, then the appointed ones were the malaria and kala-azar. The establishment of the statutory and the appointed infectious diseases signified that the government of the Republican period had intervened in the administration of infectious diseases.