The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-24
RESULTS THAT COUNT.

| June, l5zU, ~.
July, 1920, 81.
August, 1920, H.
September ILL., IS; total 49,
We have no epidemic and when they
state that we have they are injuring
US and publishing falsehoods.'
The Journal gave space on Tuesday
morning to a communication from the
| Tampa Tribune, published by Tampa
physician, in which Tampa is warned
against failing to enforce its sanitary
| laws, and calls attention to the fix
| Pensacola is in" from failure to do
| that very thing. The Journal publish
ed this letter in the hope that it might
| be a warning to Pensacohans, as well
as Tampans.
| Mr.. Andrews is right in saying that
Pensacola is not suffering from IAN
| epidemic of plague" it is not and has
not at any time this summer. But had
it not been for the public health SER
vice, the probability is that we should
| have been suffering not only from an
| epidemic of plague but from quaran-
/ tine of this city, which would mean
| not only misery to the individual,
through the disease but disaster to the
entire community.
| Mr.. Adrews admits, and proves by
| figures, which have been published
once before in The Journal, that this
city has never been so healthful as
during this summer and he uses the,
months of June, July, August and
| September, to prove this fact. But he
fails to point out that during June,
July, August and September, the pub
lie health service has been in control
of the situation in Pensacola, and that
the demands for sanitation have been
more fully met this summer, in spite
of many delinquents, than for many
past years.
Last summer and the summer before
this city was a disgrace. Anyone who
worked in Pensacola during the influ-
enza. epidemic which swept this entire
country, must have been appalled, at
the fragrant neglect of sanitary en-
forcement, and the danger to which
this community was subjected, because
of carelessness of the individual and
arrant neglect of city officials and
others responsible for the enforcement
of sanitary ordinances.
The expense which has fallen upon
lem that Pensacola has had to face this
summer has been regrettable. But
since the beginning of history the
rights of the few have had to give way
before the rights of the many. The
money loss to a few individuals is as
nothing compared to the quarantining
of Pensacola, and the terrific CONNER
ciaI loss which would come to Pensa-
cola at a time when this city is just
at the crucial point of progress, and
facing forward to a new era
Results are always what count in
summing up. There are some who de-
clare that there has never been a case
of bubonic plague in this city. But it
is hardly probable that these persons
will deny that, whether we have had
bubonic plague in Pensacola or not.
results have amply attested to the
value of the work of the public health
service in this community.
Nobody who goes about the city with
an unprejudiced mind and sees the
cleaning up that is underway, and
which has been underway since the
middle of June, when the public health
service took charge, will deny that the
campaign for cleanliness has been
good thing for this city.
The greatest howl that has gone up
in regard to rat-proofing has been
from real estate agents and interests
which are amply able to do their part
in protecting this city and this state
from a possible epidemic.
1t is the business of the real estate
agents to do all that they can to pro-
Oh.
sited policy which leads them to hold
out against the demands of the public
health service. A clean bill OF health
is the very best advertisement that any
city can have. Let the public health
service declare Pensacola under quar-
antine, and it will be a long time be-
fore this city will recover from the
blow Let the public health service
leave Pensacola with clean bill of
health, and we shall have the best
advertisement we have ever had.
AS to the private interests which are
refusing to meet the demands of the
public health service, it is regrettable
that it should be necessary for these
firms to pay out large sums of money
for proofing and other precaution-
airy mea sures. But it must be remem-
bered that Pensacola is not the only
city which has to meet these demands.
New Orleans, San Francisco, Beau
mont, and every other city in which
one rat has been found infected with
bubonic plague have had to do the
same thing.
In the same issue of The Journal in
which appeared the appeal from the
Tampa Tribune to Tampans to clean
up their city, and which cited Pensa-
cola as a warning there appeared an
editorial calling attention to the fact
that Pensacola had never passed
through so heahhful a summer, and
giving to the public health service
much of the credit for this condition.
The Journal believes that the public
health service and the campaign of
cleanliness instituted by them is large
ly responsible for the fact that in spite
of the disease. and the cases of plague