Excerpt from Twelfth Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Florida: Jacksonville, February 19, 1901

Lead to scientific investigation and prolong this report. Suffice to say, the general belief is that the rolling char acter and general topography of our county, with its natural drainage, purity of drinking water and nearness to the Gulf, from which we receive daily the invigorating western winds, gives an immunity from prevailing dis eases. Hernando county is located on a ridge running south and terminating at Clearwater Harbor, the sanita rium Of Florida.

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