Excerpt from Eleventh Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Florida: Jacksonville, March 15, 1900 The health of the citizens of Leon county and Tallahassee during 1899 was exceptionally geod. There were fewer cas'es of fever than ever before. Smallpox, a mild type, broke out among the negroes last April. There weie abbut twenty tight or thirty cases, but no deaths. A pesthouse was erected about two miles from town, to which all cases were sent. Airriy work Our town is almost entirely lice from nialaiial' troubles, except as biought in from the adjacent country, and could be made the healthiest town in the State. Theie was some little excitement produced bv the announcement of yellow fever at Ifey \vest, Miami and but the panicky conditions produced some years ago by the proclama tion of yellow fever in Florida are no longer known. The people are learning to have great confidence in the State Board of I'lealth and its management of our health matters, and are much more serene over the announcement of infec tious epidemics than they formerly were. The sentiment of the people in' this section is very largely in favor of public health matters remaining under the control of the State Board of Health. And against any transfer to the national author ities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.