The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-10-14
SANITATION EDUCATION

In no respect DO the people OF
Florida need practical educationl
more than in the value and impor-
lance of health and sanitation.
The problems that Florida has to /
meet are those common to all the
South, with the added complications
that her ports are important gate
ways into the United States for the
commerce of the West Indies and
many South American countries
Only those who know the accomplish
ments of the past twenty-five years.
can realize what has been done by
Florida's board of health in the
practical solution Of these problems
But the relations between this and
other countries in health matters
are better understood than they
were a quarter of century ago, and
their control has been put ON a prac-
teal and not Theoretical basis,
| F1orida's health problem at pres
ent is the elevation to higher effic-
iiency OF the methods of sanitation.
of the prevention. OF disease, of
avoiding diseases that are clearly
preventable, and in order to accomp-
1ish these results, to educate the peo-
pie to the importance of careful
and sanitary diving.
/ OF the immense educational value
to Florida will be the annual gather
ing of the American Public Health.
Association, which IS to be held at
Jacksonville during the first week in
December. 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 Balti-
fillmore. 1t has a membership Of
$4,000 of the highest physicians and
sanitary workers in the United Stat
les, Canada, Mexico and Cuba. The
program is to be devoted to the dis
lcussion of health matters that espec-
Tally concern the South, as hook
worm, pe1lagra, bubonic plague. ma
llaria, trachoma, typhoid, rural sani.
tation, child welfare, fly extermina.
ton and many Others OF almost
equal interest.
In connection with this convention
Jacksonville medical authorities arr
planning a Southern Health Exhibit
ltton, the first OF its kind ever under
taken In this country, to illustrat.
geographically by charts, photo
graphs, models, panels and by othe
! means, the methods that have beef
adopted by the most skilled worker
\ Ito control these various ailments.
In preparing this exhibition, co
! Operation has been promised by TIL
health boards of nearly every South
h Tern state, of many Southern cite
n by the Rockefeller Foundation, th
7 Red Gross, the National Publ
. Heath Service, the United State
Department of Agriculture, the Ma
tional Mouth Hygiene Associatio
and many other organizations OF thl
j thigh class. FIorida's Board Q
Health will send an exhibit OF II
work along certain lines, which is t
c become part of a larger exhibit tina
will he sent over the country for ed
vocational purposes.
Jacksonville's city board G
health is preparing several exhibit.
one of which will illustrate it
Isplendid campaign against typhoi
fever More than fifty boards an
Iother organizations from every pal
of the South have promised actiy
Incorporation in this exhibition. Til
will show the actual accomplish
ments that have been gained
some particular lines of sanitatio
: land will be rarely suggestive eve
o to the non-professional student an
IS observer.
These approaching gathering
r for the advancement of health cor
r ditions, being held in a Florida cit,
will offer unexampled opportunity t
p FLORIDA statisticians, sociologistl
e. sanitarians, nurses, physicians an
~ municipal authorities to study an
" discuss these problems with the me
d and women who are devoting thei
:" lives to the study of them, and tn
IN municipalities of the state shoul
es representative from their healt
20 lboards to study and profit from thi
w exhibit.