Seven large-scale surveys of the tuberculosis rate in Taiwan have been performed by the government since World War Ⅱ, and the results of the most re cent one, carried out in 1988, are similar to those of the one in 1983: both showed an incidence rate of around one percent. Compared with the substantial declines shown in previous surveys, that is startling news.
台灣地區在光復之後，政府一共做過七次大規模的肺結核病盛行調查，而民國七十七年最近這次所做的結果，和民國七十二年的結果相類似，發生率都在百分之一左右，這和以往每次普查都有大幅下降的情形相較，似乎是個警訊。