Epidemiological experience

Tomoe Takagi first issued a quarantine law for ships and trains to control external sources. Takagi used both hard and soft tactics. In addition to encouraging people to catch rats by offering incentives, he asked the sanitary police to step up enforcement against households that failed to clean up or cooperate in catching rats, and finally he improved hygiene conditions in Taiwan by rezoning the city. He was actively involved in publicising the prevention of infectious diseases in schools at all levels. Takagi also fully supported the plague vaccination programme, which gradually reduced the infection and death rates, and the plague gradually disappeared.