The Ocala evening star., 1921-07-09
SOME MANNER FOR LOCAL
COUNTY BOARDS OF HEALTH.


a good State Board of Health and
viii see that the money is spent for
results.
HilIsboro County is one of the
largest and principal contributors to
the State Board Of Health funds.
According to my memory the taxes
for the State Board of Health funds
in that county under the half mill
basis are about sixteen thousand dol
lars year.
In the future these taxes viii be
approximately eight thousand dollars
per year.
Hillsboro as an individual county
never has and never will get back for
that county the amount of taxation
they pay. but if local Health Boards
were in vogue. Hillsboro County would
get nearly all of it with exception of
a minimum amount to maintain the
State Board of Health, which would
be ADVISORY and NOT ADMINS
TRATIVE in character.
How in the dickens can a central
Board for all Florida direct all health
activities?
Health is proposition that needs
and must have LOCAL DIRECTION
under the supervision of a competent
State Board of Health.
Florida lis ANTIQUATED in this
respect as other states have tried
local County Health Boards and
FOUND THEM EFFECTIVE.
/ observe wherein you state in this
communication published broadcast
all over Florida that LOWING TO
THE ACTUAL LACK OF FUNDS,
THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH
MUST NECESSARILY MARK TINE
UNTIL THE LEGISLATURES MAY
SEE FIT TO MAKE AN ADEQUATE
APPROPRIATION"
MARKING TIME" will put WA
TER ON THE WHEEL" of progress
i've and EFFECTIVE Local Health
Boards.
DON'T HARP like a schoolboy
about what you saint" got and can't
get.
The former Board provided a ga
rage for you in which to keep your
PRIVATE OWNED PACKARD un-
der cover whereby the hot summer
sun would not crack the paint thereon.
This garage was constructed dur
ing April and May.
"HAVE A HEART" and considera-
tion for your predecessor who is the
BEST State Health Officer Florida
EVER HAD.
Quit growing.
Buckle down to HARD WORK and
THOUGHT for the State.
viii concede that you are compe-
tent IF YOU WANT TO BE.
There are sufficient funds now on
hand and will be provided in the next
two years for you to render a good
SERVICE to Florida, but there will
be no funds for WONDERFUL IN
NOVATIONS, FOUR-FLUSHING, or
to hire twelve or fifteen political doc
tors, known as District Health OFF,
GERS, with liberal expense accounts to
travel from one end of Florida to the
other visiting the innermost recesses
of the State, mixing with voters,
squirting tobacco juice, with words of
praise and alteration for the State
Health Officer. their line of talk or
political slush probably being, "Boys,
the State Health Officer is a BEAR,
he can DISSECT anything on earth
except BUDGET THAT PROTECTS
THE TAX PAYERS OF FLORIDA .
have received letter from Secre-
tafy of the Florida Medical Associa-
tion in which he advises that you
have requested the appointment of a
committee from the Florida Medical
Association to investigate the finan-
cial status of the State Board of
Health and to corroborate or find adj
versely relative to your statement
ShAO0Sn Tic EIOIuid press COLCSILAilS
the financial status of the former and
present State Board of Health.
DOC" many people in Florida will
be of the opinion that you are at
tempting through this request to hit
the former State Board of Health or
me BELOW THE BELT.
Every one viii know that the doc
tors of Florida are YOUR CROWD.
However, from a personal stand
point l will be glad to appear before
committee of doctors appointed by
the President of the Florida Medical
Association, but it would have been
better to have selected FIVE public
spirited citizens of the State consist
ing of doctor, lawyer, preacher,
business man and a farmer or citrus
grower.
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