新中国成立前的佛山,污水横流,垃圾遍地,病疫流行,求神拜佛成习。细菌和病疫严重威胁着全市人民的健康和生命,1912年到1946年,佛山就发生过霍乱、鼠疫、疟疾、恙虫病等六次传染病大流行,死去和逃亡了不少人,使这座曾拥有四五十万人口的中国名镇之一的古城,到建国初期只剩下八万多人。那时,全市几乎没有一条完好的下水道,人们只得把污水倒入破烂的臭水沟,或者在屋里挖个 Before the founding of New China, Foshan, sewage cross-flow, trash everywhere, epidemic epidemic, ask God worship. Bacteria and epidemics pose a serious threat to the health and lives of people in the city. From 1912 to 1946, there were six epidemics of epidemics such as cholera, plague, malaria and scrub typhus in Foshan. Many people died and fled, The ancient city, once one of the famous Chinese towns with a population of four to five million, left over 80,000 in the early days of the founding of the People’s Republic. At that time, there was almost no intact sewer in the city, people had to pour the sewage into a shabby ditch or dig in the house