Excerpt from Report of the Board of Health of the State of Florida: For the Years 1895 and 1896It is to be regretted that, in order to give prominence to the revenue cutter patrol system, that it should have been stated that an outbreak of yellow fever in the South was of yearly occurrence, to prevent which the patrol system was inaugurated by revenue cutters cruising at short distances and launches manned by a medical officer with ample outfit of field medical service. To seize upon yellow fever suspects ere they land on an uninhabited part of the coast, and in tent hospitals stamp out the disease. The correspondent, to have completely reached his imaginative t, Should have added, and the patients also, for yellow fever patients so treated in summer, on the coast, would most likely die. These state ments may be characterized as sensational when broadly dis seminated over the wires of the Associated Press, and have done great injury to the cause of rational sanitation, and to the interests of the State of Florida. It has frightened the public where there was no cause for fear, and although the authority for such meaningless information has, we are glad tostate, been denied at the Government Bureau, yet the impress has been felt in the State, and a sudden death or severe illness anywhere tends to an alarm, which is unreasonable, and which has not been witnessed since 1888. On account of these several alarming notices, many citizens of Florida began to think that this year was a fated one for the State, and, on account of the insurgent movement in Cuba, Florida would, of necessity, be visited by the dreaded scourge of the Antil les. The fact is that there has been less yellow fever in Havana, up to a month ago, than for several years past, and it is predicted that there will be no serious outbreaks among the Spanish troops, unless the army is recalled from the coun try to the garrisons of the sea coast. Another fact worthy of consideration, which lessens to a great degree the danger of importation of yellow fever to this country from Cuba this year, is that the insurrection has already caused a great de pression in business there, which has shown itself in a decided lessening of commercial intercourse with the United States.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.