In that age when medical care was scarce, it was often impossible to do anything for people infected by disease. In addition, workers in the mines often faced unpredictable dangers, and there was periodic havoc wrought by fire or flood.
在當時醫療資源缺乏的時代，若逢疾病流行，常有人不治；加上工人在礦區工作，常隱匿著不可測的危險；還有祝融和水災經常肆虐。