The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1915-03-25
OF A PRACTICAL CHARACTER
A Use Being Made of Scientific
Exhibit Prepared at Jackson
vile Last December

The eye is better medium of
education than the ear.
Pictures, movies and others,
make more definite and lasting
impressions on the popular mind
than the lectures or sermons, and
! the statement is made without in
tending to minimize the chautau-
quas or the ministers.
Taking advantage of this psy-
Geological fact, the State Board of
Health has at last realized a long
cherished idea of futhering it's
campaign of educating the people
of Florida by illustrating in
graphic form, by panels and pho
Itographs and models, what it has
been writing about for good
many years.
This exhibit was prepared for
the Southern Medical Exhibition
which was held in Jacksonville
last December. Many thousands
came and studied its features and
went away impressed with the
practical work that is being done
by the board for the state. With
some additions and changes it
was prepared to be shown in a
number of Florida cities, with the
idea of spreading as wide as pos
sible the instruction on health and
sanitary matters.
This exhibit is made up largely
of panels on which are shown in
attractive and striking form the
important facts that are involved
in the fight for better health con-
ditions in Florida. Some of these
subjects are vital statistics; the
part the laboratory plays in health
conservation malaria and how its
spread is prevented by the use of
screens; the fly and the mosquito
and how they work in carrying
disease germs; typhoid fever and
its prevention; smallpox and the
results gained by vaccination;
diphthcria, its prevention and
cure; measles, whooping cough
and other infantile Affections; the
work of caring for Florida s in
digent crippled children; hook
worm, its cause and cure; studies
in hog cholera and black tongue,
in glanders and cattle tick; six
panels illustrating the campaign
against tuberculosis, its ravages
and the details of the open-air
treatment as compared with insti-
tutional treatment; the care, feed
ing and dressing of babies and
some startling figures showing the
results of the lack of proper at
tention to the new born child.
There are models of sleeping
porches and of properly construct
ed and located dwellings. To
these have been added more re-
Gently panels illustrating mosqui-
to determination, rabies among
animals, cancer and pellagra,
their development and the meth
DDS of treatment so far developed.
The splendid value of this ex-
hibit has been shown by the ac-
i've interest taken in it in various
,ities in Florida. Forty thous-
md people visited it in Tampa in
our days; three thousand in San
ord in four days; three thousand
n Orlando in two days; fifteen
hundred in Lakeland in two
lays; two thousand five hundred
n Palatka in two days; three
housand in Ocala in two days.
This attendance was equal to
hree quarters of the estimated
of these six cities. At
he time of this writing, the exhib-
t is located at Pensacola and it is
o be taken to Tallahassee later.
A remarkable and satisfactory
eature of this attendance has
een the carefulness with which it
as been studied, especially by
he children. 1t has been a splen-
id object lesson to emphasize the
raining that has been undertaken
y the progressive teachers in
lany Florida schools. The in
the preconcieved no.
ions and the unwillingness of
lder persons to accept the ad-
ances made by modern medical
cience, do not have to be combat
ed among the younger element in
he community. Their anxiety to
earn is promising augury for
Increasingly better health condi-
ions i'm Florida i'm the vearS In