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	Record Group Number:	000894
	Series/Collection Number:	.S 47
	Creator:	Florida. State Board of Health.
	Title, Dates:	Letterbooks, 1901-1913.
	Amount:	59.00 v. 1.00 cubic ft.
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	Summary:	This series contains the letterbooks of outgoing correspondence of the State Health Officer, Dr. Joseph Y. Porter, for the years 1901 to 1913. This correspondence documents Porter's term as the State Health Officer and his duties as the Federal Quarantine Officer for the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service at Key West. The series also contains Porter's personal outgoing correspondence. In addition, the series contains the outgoing correspondence of the Board of Health statistical clerk concerning birth and death records. This correspondence is mostly administrative in nature and does not reveal many birth and death statistics. The purpose of most of the correspondence is to explain that statistics cannot be furnished due to the great fire of 1901 that destroyed all records for the previous 12 years. Usually correspondents were referred to the physician in attendance at the time for information on specific births and deaths. A name index is available at the beginning of each volume.
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	Subject Access Fields:	United States. Public Health and Marine Hospital Service. Public health Florida Quarantine Florida Yellow fever Florida Communicable diseases Florida Health boards Florida Key West (Fla.)
	Added Entries	Porter, Joseph Y.