The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-05-27

of yellow fever, but he has given a
program, which, if followed, makes
almost negligible the fevers and ma
llaria that for years menaced the
swamp and overlooked areas of the
South and other lands. For all
time it should be understood that
the Valley of the Mississippi with
Its tributaries and its deltas, with
the application of the simple pre-
ventatives, standardized by Gorgas,
is as healthful as any part of the
world.
The teachings of Gorgas have
been followed. The perfect drain
age was the first step. A staff of
trained physicians and nurses are a
vital part of the organization. At
a cost of $4,000 a colored hos
pital with modern equipment has
been established, the only one of
| its kind in the Cotton Belt. A
graduate nurse with assistants are
on duty. The houses for the white
population are screened and where
advisable the negro houses are also
screened. Thick oil is put regu-
larly in all pools of water and no
empty cans or other Teeeptacles are
permitted on the place. All negro
homes are equipped with mosquito
bars sold to them at actual cost. A
motor ambulance is in readiness at
all times and with telephone COM
munication throughout the farm, the
service is as prompt as city hos
pital. There is complete sewerage
system. The negro hospital con-
tains large screened verandas for
the convalescents, office and dis
pensary, laboratory, toilets and hot
and cold baths for male and female,
separate wards for male and female,
Operating room with complete
equipment of tables and instru-
ments, sterilizing room with COM
plete outfit, diet kitchen and
nurses rooms. Complete records
are kept by the nurses of each
patient. Mr.. Salisbury greeted the
convalescents in the sunshine, call
ing them by name, talked with
very old colored man, gray and
feeble as he lay between clean
sheets, and received his meal from
the diet kitchen. He spoke TO two
small negro boys, one with broken
arm, the other badly burned, who
were comfortable, having just re-
ceived expert treatment at the hands
of the nurses and doctors. SAILS
bury was explaining that there we
have every convenience of a regu-
lar hospital" when the head nurse,
who was listening, promptly and
with pride said: Big Boss, this is
a regular hospital"
A drug store, housed in a brick
building, with plate glass front, with
its marble soda fountain, in appear
ance is as attractive as those seen
in the towns and cities. Complete
stock of medicine and sundries, and
a complete prescription department
Staple items like quinine that are
sold to the tenants at actual cost.
1t is estimated that in six years
malaria has been reduced 90 per
cent. Labor efficiency has been in
creased 90 per cent, doctors bills
have been reduced so per cent. Cor
responding percentages apply to the
hook worm and pellagra. The per-
centages of disease are being con-
stantly lowered. The percentages
of efficiency in increasing man
power and keeping laborers ply
sically fit, are being increased. The
economic value as applied to the
labor problem is markedly demon
strated. The death rate is very low
under these scientific and hurnani-
tartan methods, but when the hum
blest negro tenant or laborer, an
swers the call of "Oid Black Joe"
who has preceded into the Great Be
yond, a modern hearse is in readi-
ness on the plantation to carry the
body to the narrow tenement of the
dead in the bosom of the great
Delta.
Education
To live ON the big farm under the