The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-04-18
State Sanitary Engineer Will
Cooperate With City And
Government Health Off
Gals. -
OUTLYING AREAS
WILL BE DRAINED
Expense of 1t. Bresch's
Work Here Will Be Born
BY State; Mosquitoes and
Other Pests To Go.

1t. Alexander Bresth. state sanitary
engineer from Jacksonville. has arr
rived in Pensacola to make = survey
of this city with view to the drain
age of outlying sections.
1t. Bresth comes to Pensacola on
the invitation Of DR.. Cox. Of the pub
lie Health Service, and has already
made a cursory Investigation of the
of drainage; having made examina-
tion Of the clay pits In the north
ern part of the city. Butcher Pen
pond. in the western section. the low
lands in the eastern part OF the city.
near the old Wright Mill section. and
the bayshore between Pensacola and
the ship building plant.
1t. Bresth il well acquainted with
the drainage problems of the South.
He has only recently been discharged
from the army, having been . member
of the sanitary corps Of the medical
division at Camp Johnston. Later he
was chief sanitary oflcer at Camp
Wadsworth, Spartanburg. Q. G. He
IL a graduate OF the Boston Tech.
and for two years was on tho State
Health B0ard OF Massachusetts and
at the opening OF the war p)aoe4 1T
the head Of the public hoa1t6 de-
partment at Des Moines. Iowa, In the
extra cantonment service.
In speaking Of the contemplated
drainage OF this section, DR.. Cox said
yesterday: "The drainage Of the areas
in our program win not
cost the, city q cent, the expense t0
be borne entirely by the state. 1t is
in line, however, with the program
which we are trying to work out
in Pensacola. and which we feel sure
will receive the support Of the people
in this section. Both 1t. Bresth and
myself have been engaged in the pub
lie health service for several years.
and our experience has shown that
the problem we face il one which
needs continuous and not sporadic ef-
fort. =
Take the question of drainage. alone
Say the state goes to the expenss
to drain sections of the city, this il
only one step forward I'm the right di-
rection.
"The federal government, the state,
and city must work together.
and it is useless to start this work
unless it is continued. And It IL DIM
cult to continue. unless it is the busf-
ness Of one man. who gives his entire
time and attention to the job. Soon
er or later, Pensacola II going to
have a city health onicer, whose duty
it will be, to give his entire time
and attention to such problems, as in
other cities.
Already the four places which we
vamined with view to draining.
q breeding mosquitoes, in the form
o. "wiggle tails. which will soon be
a menace to the health of the Pensa-
cola people who live near the sections
that we have visited, tell us that mos
uuitoes are very bad there In the
and we believe that the
drainage of these areas will help to
solve the problem of their elimina
ton. But it will be only the begin
ming. The good work must be kept up"
School Children Examined.
DIR. Cox has been busy for the past
week with an examination Of school
children. carried on at the Jockey
school. with the aid of the teachers
and his secretary, Miss Emily Lamont.
Three hundred and forty school chil-
dren were examined, and the report
made by DR.. Cox showed a high
health standard, in spite of the fact
that some cases OF a serious eye dis
ease. trachoma was found. One Of
the encouraging features Of the ex-
according to DIR. Cox. was
the condition of the teeth of the chill
dren in the school. DIR. Cox said that
while many pupils needed dental work
that the teeth of the majority of the
children We're in very good order He
stated that the work Of examination
will be continued next week at the
Eliza Jane Wilson school, and later
other public schools of the city viii
be examined
The school work will be followed
up by DIR. Rogers, who will arrive
about the last OF April. remaining
in Pensacola for the month Of May
Dr. Rogers is one Of the most promi-
nent women physicians in the South.
and comes to continue the work which
Dr.. Grace Whitford, chief of the Chit
Welfare Bureau, launched In Pensa-
cola. and which the work OF Dr. Cox