Instructions on Report on Schistosomiasis-Prevention Conference
(March 7, 1956)

Source: *Wansui* (n.d. 3), p. 216.

This is a set of instructions that Mao issued in response to the “Report on the Preparation
for the Convening of the Second [National] Conference on the Prevention and Curing of
Schistosomiasis.” We have no information from the source as to by whom, or where, the
report was made. On the subject of schistosomiasis and Mao’s writing on the topic, see text
July 1, 1958, and text Nov. 25, 1958(2), note 17.

In addition to the six provinces of the lower Yangtze River, you should also
invite representatives from other provinces where schistosomiasis has been discovered, such as Sichuan, Guangdong, and Fujian, to attend [the conference]. Please
discuss and arrange this with Comrade Ke Qingshi.1
While the conference [most certainly should take the] discussion of schistosomiasis as its primary responsibility, the discussion of other most serious diseases,
such as the hookworm disease, would also be proper. [At] this conference [the time
and place] of the next conference should be set; another conference [should be]
held in the latter half of the year. That would be two conferences every year and
that should be enough.

Note

1. See text Dec. 26, 1953, vol. I, source note; see also text Jan. 27, 1957(1), note 13.