It was then that Chen Tao-ming, the director of Hualien County's Chuohsi Rural Township Clinic, discovered that the problem of alcohol abuse in that mountain rural township was really serious. Out of 77 people who died there that year, thirty cases were due to either alcohol poisoning or accidents that occurred after drinking--that is about 40 percent.
時任花蓮縣卓溪鄉衛生所主任陳道明，發現山地鄉酗酒問題實在嚴重：當年在全鄉死亡的七十七人中，因酒精中毒或飲酒後意外死亡者共卅人，約佔四成。