Excerpt from Fourteenth Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Florida: Jacksonville, Florida, February 10, 1903

By the Board has been explained to the physicians of the State in circular letters, sample cards, and pamphlets, but the difference after all between the new and the old method is not so great as to be any ways confusing, mis leading o-r troublesome. The future of this division of the Board's work must depend very largely if not altogether upon the co-operative assistance given by the Medical profession of the State. \vithout the help of the Physi cians, a system calculated to add greatly to the statistics of the State and which it is thought will contribute very materially to her health and general reputation, must fail, for unless every Physician will carefully and promptly report each birth and death as it occurs in his or her practice, the partial and incomplete returns received by the Board will not be accurate or of very much value. The State Board of Health supplies free of any cost all cards and blanks and merely asks of each Doctor a moment of his time, to fill in and mail the desired infor mation. The Medical profession of Florida has always been so uniformly attentive to all requests of the Board, that I feel it to be only necessary to again invite attention to this matter to have my petition for a more careful observance of the requirement of the State Statute com plied with. Each Physician is a citizen of the great com monwealth of Florida, and should be as interested in 11 measures which add to wealth and immigration, and as jealous of her reputation for health enjoyment and life prolongation, as is the State Board of Health, therefore the State Health Officer is not disposed to be cross with some who fail to report their cases of births and deaths, or to employ legal help in the matter, because he believes that the failure is due altogether to forgetfulness and not to indifference or predetermined opposition to the Board's methods. Those who fail to report now, and failing to do so seriously impair the value of all efforts of those who.

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