The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-08-06
REPORT SHOWS
THAT WATER is
CONTAMINATED
DR.. KENNEDY COMMENTS ON
THE FINDINGS OF DIR. HAN
SEN, SENIOR BACTERIOLOGIsT
WHO EXAMINED BAYvIEW
WATER.

When asked last night if he had
any comment to make on the official
report of the senior baeteriologist of
the State Board of Health on the con-
dftion existing at Bayview, DR.. Ken
nedy seid;
"Thc report is most complete, and
shows an enormous amount of study
and research work, and should con-
vince even the most skeptical that
Bayview is not fit, in its present con-
dition, to battle in.
'.In the face Of all the discriminating
evidence / was surprised and shocked
to note that the city commissioners
assumed the responsibility of opening
the park for bathing purposes. As
DR.. Hanson and DIR. Porter have said,
There is no epidemic disease in Pen
Eacola at the present fine and we
know Of no great number of cases, (if
we exclude the eye, ear, nose and
throat troubles), which can be traced
directly to Bayview, but commended
from the start, and the committee in
charge of the park took the same
view, that it was better in the light
of our knowledge of existing condi-
tions there, to advise against using
Bayview, than to wait until an out
break of disease would demand such
action.
INSTEAD of receiving abuse for hav-
ing followed the only logical course
for them to pursue, the citizens of
Pensacola should give the committee
| in charge of Bayview vote of thanks
for being on their job and for notify
ing the public of the danger present.
Personally, as a public health of
fetal, my duty was plain, and the
findings of DIR. Hanson, DIR. Porter
and the United States Public Health
Service, the best authority in the
United States on such matters, have
borne out my contentious, almost I'd
the letter. | have heard that some
have put forth the argument, that
We must say nothing and do nothing
that might injure the town. The town
they are so anxious to protect, is
made up of men, women and children
Are we to run the risk of sacrificing
them ON the altar of money or shall
we tell the truth?
/ "Some Of your readers may not un-
derstand all that has been written
about 100000 bacteria to the cubic
centimeter. And the fact that bacillus
coli were invariably found in one
cubic centineter of Bayview water
so to make it plain, ] am going to put
it, as Smithwick says, in white folks
talk, and ask them a simple ques-
ton.
eff you were about to wash your
face in bowl Of water, and someone
who had examined that water ane
was therefore in 8 position to know
all about it, came along, and told yot
that it was full of material that hal
come out Of q sewer that was con
nected with a great many toilets
would you continue to wash your facs
|, in it, or would you throw it out AM
get some water that you knew wa
! clean?
You don't have to be an eminen
! physician, or bacteriologist or
sanitarian to answer this question.
know what you would 10, and yol
know what you would do.
Now, suppose, that while the part.
! who knew about this later was tell
, ing you that it was full of this ma
! terial from the sewer one of the cit
commissioners should come along AM
tell you that it was all right, that h
bathed in it. and liked it, and tina
he wanted you to go ahead and use il
! what would be your answer to him
think il would be about like this: ]
/ you like this kind Of water you cal
: wash your face in it, but Not TO
NINE"