The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1917-07-17
Better Health
Means Greater
Land Values
State Board of Health Shows How
Sanitation Can Increase Dollars
for People


and. subsequently,, dollars in his
pockets. 1t not only means an in
creased value for farm lands, but an
enhancement of city property: and
every man, regardless Of his trade or
profession, will be benefited ~ this
improvement.
ia presenting the above facts, the
State Board of Health is endeavoring
to enlist the aid of every citizen i'll |
statewide effort to make the recently
inaugurated Intensive Sanitary Cam
paign a vital asset and community |
builder.
There was a time when man would |
accord his domesticated animals bet
ter living conditions than he gave TO
himself and his family. These ami |
mails we're fed only the choicest OF
foods prepared by selected formulas,
while his CT 'ldren ate anything they
could digest aout an immediate
fatality. HIS animals were housed
in the cleanest of barns and kept
free from pests that would prevent
them becoming more valuable TO
their owner. Yet the man and his
family lived in less desirable abode
where flies and disease carrying in
sets found easy access.
Then the science or modern sahi-
tStion became more generally Under
stood, and thinking men began to
take more precautions to safeguard
their own health. Moreover, there
still remains a large element CT hui
marty which has never fully learned
the value of sanitation or which still
manifests large amount of indiffer-
cree toward it's practice.
Also, there is the individual who
looks at everything about nm lin
terms of dollars and cents. He may
believe that sanitary arrangements
on his premises are a good thing;
but he figures the cost will be one
which he can very we'll do without
He is large property owner, maybe
and one whose influence, il enlisted
in a cooperative plan in the State
Board of Health Campaign, woult
be avital factor in furthering thu
work.
1t is largely to this class of either
that the Board of Health is makinl
the argument that increased santa
tion means not only better health
but more money.
The man in outside localities
when he goes to look for new homo
is coming to think more of healt
conditions than he did in fcrme
years AS proof of this, inquire
received from those wishing to pun
chase land for the establishment Q
new homes indicate that they ar
not willing to go into communit
to live, regardless Of the Opportunit
il may present, when they are jeol
ardizing the lives of members G
their families.
Florida's death rate from intestir
al diseases can be reduced by state
wide adherence to proper sanitar
regulations, which will cut down tn
number of the maladies that com
from unscreened and improperly col
structed surface closets. Malaria an
typhoid fever are largely matter {
choice with the individual. BY prol
erlv screened houses and a caref'
watch over the surroundings the
can be avoided.
This state has suffered greatly
the hands of the large railway sy
TENS of the west, whose agents,
seeking to develop their own teri
tory, have incorrectly informed pre-
pective customers who wuld ha
come south. They have told the
that it is impossible to live here I
account of the intensive malari
conditions, thus causing many
them to purchase land elsewhere.
However, in spite of their TAXI
advantage of condition which C
be remedied by the individual hi
self, Florida's population increas
co. per cent from 1910 to 1915 a.
review of census reports shows
corresponding increase for the pl
ceding five years. Every man in t
state can cooperate in makins
Intensive Sanitary Campaign Of
State Board of Health the basic pr
ciple in increasing real estate vall
and the means of bringing into FL
IDA thousands of new people to Fl
homes.