When he saw a serious cholera epidemic racing through his hometown in 1947, Hsu Wen-cheng organized a dozen classmates from National Taiwan University into a team that assisted other NTU doctors based at Ilan Provincial Hospital with work in examining patients, promoting public education, and disinfection and disease prevention.
眼見家鄉的霍亂疫情嚴重，1947 年許文政號召、發動十餘名台大醫學系同學組成服務隊，協助駐在省立宜蘭醫院的台大醫師進行檢驗、宣傳、消毒防疫等工作。