In the winter of 1894, there was an epidemic in the poor, crowded Tai Ping Sham area where Chinese refugees lived. Of the 150,000 poor laborers living in the primitive conditions of that place, more than 2,600 died.
一八九四年冬天，在貧困華人移民蝟居的太平山地區，爆發了一場大瘟疫，在生活條件十分落後的十五萬華人貧困勞動者社區中，造成兩千六百多人死亡。