The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-10-16
Sanitation Education.

In no respect do the people OF
Florida need practical education more
than in the value and Importance Of
health and sanito ton.
The problems that Florida has to
meet are those that are common to
all the South, with the added compli-
caions that her ports are important
gateways into tine United States for
the commerce of the West Indies and
many South American countries. On
ly those who know the accomplish
ments of the past twenty-five years,
can realize what has been done by
Florida's Health Board in the practi-
eel solution of some of these prob
lens. But the relations between this
and other countries in health matters
are better understood than they were
a quarter century ago, and their con-
troll has been put on a practical and
not theoretical basis.
! Florida's great health problem at
present is the elevation TO higher
efficiency of the methods of SANTA
ton, of the prevention of disease, OF
avoiding diseases that are clearly pre-
ventable, and in order to accomplish
these results, to educate the people
to the Importance of careful and sani-
tary living.
Of immense educational value to
Florida will be the annual gathering
of the American Public Health Asso-
citation, which is to be held at Jack
sonville during the first week Of De-
tember. This convention is to be
the first of this association to be held
in the Far South in the United States,
and the first south of Baltimore. 1t
has a membership of two thousand of
the highest physicians and sanitary
workers in the United States, Canada,
Mexico and Cuba. The program is
to be devoted to the discussion of the
health matters that especially concern
the South, as hookworm, peilagra, bu-
bCnic plague, malaria, trachoma, ty-
phoid, rural sanitation, child welfare,
fly determination and many others OF
almost equal interest.
b In connection with this convention
Jacksonville medical authorities are
planning Southern Health Exhibit
ton the first of its kind ever under
taken in this country, to illustrate
graphically by charts, photographs
models, panels and by other means
the methods that have been adopted
by the most skilled workers to con-
rol these various ailments.
In preparing this exhibition, coop
Grafton has been promised by tbs
health boards of nearly every south
ern state, of many southern cities, by
Il do
Cross, the National Public Health Ser.
vice, the United States Department OF
Agriculture, the National Mouth by
giene Association, and several Other
Organizations of this high class
Florida's Board of Health will send ar
exhibit of its work along certain
lines, which is to become part of g
larger exhibit that will be sent ovel
the country for educational PURPOSES.
Jacksonville's City Board of Health
is preparing several exhibits one Of
which will illustrate its splendid cam
paign against typhoid fever. More
than fifty health boards and Other
organizations from every part of the
South have promised active coon
Grafton in this exhibition. These will
show the pfactlcal accompaniment
that have been gained by each in some
|. particular lines of sanitation and vii
be rarely suggestive even to the non
professional student and observer.
These approaching gatherings fol
} the advancement of health conditions
being held in Florida city, will offe1
unexampled opportunity to Flcridf
statisticians, sociologists, sanitarians
nurses, physicians and 1nunici
pal authorities to study and discus!
these problems with men and womer
| who are devoting their lives to solv
ing them, and the municipalities o.
= the State should send representative
: from their health boards to study anr
profit from this exhibit.-Press Ser
E vice, State Board of Health.