According to the Health Department's "ROC Health Statistics," in the 1950s the biggest killers of people in Taiwan were gastritis, duodenitis and enteritis. Pneumonia and other various infectious diseases were also in the top ten.
根據衛生署的「中華民國衛生統計」，民國四十多年，我國排名十大死因首位的是胃炎、十二指腸炎、腸炎，其次是肺炎等傳染疾病。