These measures were not the product of good intentions or of some innate Japanese love of cleanliness, but rather of the fact that to take Taipei the Japanese lost only 200 soldiers in combat but 20 times that number to tropical diseases.
這不是日人有先見之明，更不是日人天生愛乾淨，而是為了進台北城，日人打仗死了兩百，因熱帶疫病喪命的人數卻是二十倍之多。