The health risks of such a poor environment are shocking. Cancer became the leading cause of death in Kaohsiung in the early 1980s, two years earlier than in Taiwan Province.
惡劣的居住環境對高雄居民健康威脅讓人驚心，從一九八○年起，高雄市民的癌症首先躍居十大死亡原因的榜首，比台灣省早了兩年。