contractors initially. In October 1949 the unit was reformed as Tainan City Police Headquarters health unit and expanded its organization to take over the night soil cleaning work that was handled by the city farmers’ association. Because the agricultural land quality was poor in the rural city, the chemical fertilizer was in short supply and became very expensive. Farmers were used to applying cheap refuse and organic fertilizer such as night soil to improve the ground soil. Therefore, the amount gained from the sale of the refuse and night soil was prepared as the budget to support all expenses required for keeping the environment sanitary. Because its organization was not approved by the Taiwan Provincial Government in May 1951, it reorganized two units dedicated to the night soil disposal business and ordered Tainan City Night Soil Disposal Commission directly subordinate to the City Government to be dedicated to night soil disposal work. The health unit was subordinate to the health bureau in April 1964 and renamed as Tainan City Health Bureau cleaning unit. On April 1, 1972, per the order of Taiwan Provincial Government, Tainan City Health Bureau cleaning unit and Tainan City Night Soil Disposal Commission were consolidated and reformed as Tainan City Cleaning Administration Office. The Office’s address is the address of Tainan City Night Soil Disposal Commission. Given that the offices were too small and old to accommodate the organizational members upon the consolidation, in March 1980 23,556,00 NTD were disbursed based on “purchase of assets by assets” to build up a three-storey office building, parking lots and auto maintenance center at No. 72, Lane 133, Sec. 2, Jhonghua E. Road. The new building occupies an area of 8,515 square meters. The whole project was finalized in June 1981. This Bureau moved into the new address on June 22. As per the order of Taiwan Provincial Government, it was reformed as the Environmental Protection Bureau of Tainan City on September 1, 1988.