The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-26
FLORIDA HEALTH.
CONDITIONS
Good
DR.. Hiram Byrd Says New
Record Has Been Estab-
lished in State.


Health coldi ions n Florida were
never better than t.ey are to day, AMI
new record has been established by
this sta,e. We have not had one
case CT smallpox in the entire state
during ,ae past three montas. doubt
if any other state in, tfr Union can
equal ;3at splend record"
That was the I2c aTatiou made yes
terday by Dr. Hiram l.. Byrd. fist
assistant health officer, says the
Jacksonville Times-Union. In speak
ing of the subject further DR.. Byrd
said. among other things:
During the past three months we
have had but two susp cious cases
reported. and both of these proved to
be something other than small pox
If the disease had appeared any
where in the state. even an isolated
case We should have been promptly
notified. But thore .,as not been one
case in the entire state during the
past three months. and. LAYING this
phenomenal showing aside, il can be
truthfully said that the general health
conditions in Florida were never bet
ter. .pae
Aid of Vaccination.
These conditions ere largely due
TO the gen eral VAGINA. ion of the past
few {1ea1S Florida's population is
not yet immune, but if the next few
years finds as generakand hearty CO
operation on the part-of the people
with the health officers in force as
has marked the present year. We will
soon have a population here, barr ng
the visitors and newcomers, that will
be very nearly immune
Much is being accomplished
through the vaccination of the school
ich'ldren. Every one of them must
Ehe vaccinated and this, naturally, in
Ecrsases the number protected against
|. the disease Pand lessons, in direct
proportion, the danger of smallpox.
"Our smallpox hospitals and deten-
ton camps have been closed, as there
is no longer any need of them The
continued careful work on the part
of health officers and the CO operation
of the people generally, will keep
conditions as they are'Rt present and
in the course of few years smallpox
will be almost forgotten by the peo-
pie generally.
Even now / am fully convinced
that we lead the other states in this
smallpox matter -
Unaffected by Storms.
DR.. Byrd was asked if the two re-
! cent storms. the one at Pensacola and
the other at Miami, would affect con-
d;tions, and to this question he gave
an emphatic negativepo
at has been but aHfew years." he
said. "since street 1e&cavatiohs were
allowed in the summer months. I'm
der the old theory it was held danger
Gus to disturb surface conditions, the
general belief being that this tended
to produce an epidemic or visitation
of malaria and other feYers.
with the coming Of the mosquito
theory, however, all this ended, and
particularly after that theory was so
completely demonstrated. Now we
know that yellow fever stegomyia fas-
ciata, and malaria by another breed
of mosquito That means that dis
turbing surface conditions will not
affect these matters and this kind of
work goes on in the summer as well
as in the winter. An. example is the
work now going on on Main street.
and also the recent filling in Of
Dix Gland park.
What is true in regard to these
operations is true in regard to storm
Ilevastations, and nothing affecting
general health conditions will result
therefrom.
No Mosquito Danger.
"Any tearing up Of the surface OF
the ground by the storms will not ef-
feet the spread of fevers, any more