Japanese Calendar

Year

Event

Kaei era

1848-53

Vaccinations against smallpox conducted by Gendo Yamada, a doctor in Ena-gun Nakanoho village (Ena city), in the Naegi Domain (Nakatsugawa city) [14]

Meiji 5th

1872

Dissemination and thoroughness of vaccinations against smallpox to each kocho (head of towns and village) by Gifu prefecture [15] [17]

Meiji 7th

1874

By this time, installation of the vaccination institution in one place each in Tono region: Toki-gun Takayama village (Toki city), Tajimi Town (Tajimi city), Toki village (Mizunami city), Ena District Oi village, Iwamura, Akechi village, Nakanoho (Ena city), Naegi village (Nakatsugawa city) [14] [15]

Meiji 14th

1881

Decide on an arrangement of county doctor by Gifu prefecture, and the distribution of two county doctors to Ena-gun (Ena city and Nakatsugawa city). County doctor’s tenure of office was 5 years. The county doctor was elected by the Hygiene Society and appointed by the prefectural ordinance [14] [17] [18] .

Meiji 19th

1886

Cholera epidemic in Nagano prefecture. Establishment of quarantine branch in Nakatsugawa police station and quarantine branch office in Ochiai village (Nakatsugawa city) [15]

Meiji 26th-Showa 17th

1893

Hygiene administration affairs transferred from the Interior Department to the Police Department [14] [17] [18]

Meiji 29th

1896

Infectious epidemic of Dysentery in Iwamura (Ena city) and Kamado (Mizunami city) and Typhoid fever in Kasahara (Tajimi city) [16]

Meiji 38th-40th

1905-07

Dysentery outbreak in Koizumi and Ikeda (Tajimi city) [16]

Taisho7th

1918

Epidemic flu (Spanish flu) in Tajimi city [16]

Taisho 15th/ Showa 1st

1926

Typhoid fever epidemic in Tajimi city [16]