56 TEQUESTA


Paul George, Sam Boldrick (Florida Collection, Metro-Dade Public Li-
brary), and Becky Smith and Dawn Hugh (Research Center of the Histori-
cal Museum of Southern Florida).

 Endnotes
 1. William M. Straight, "Camp Miami, 1898,"Journal ofthe Florida
Medical Association 74 (July 1987): 504-13 (hereinafter JFMA).
 2. Joseph Yates Porter, Eleventh Annual Report of the State
Board of Health of Florida, Jacksonville, March 15, 1900, 88
(hereinafter Report, SBH, March 15, 1900).
 3. Howard Kleinberg,Miami The Way We Were (Tampa:Surfside
Publishing, 1989), 106-107. The original number/naming of Miami's
streets was changed in October 1920. Throughout this paper locations
will be noted as on today's map.
 4. The Miami Metropolis, May 27, 1898, 1.
 5. A person appointed by the City but paid by each householder
to pickup the privie buckets and empty the contents at a suitable place.
 6. "Our New Hospital." The Miami Metropolis, April 21, 1899,
2. Construction began about May 19, 1899, and was completed shortly
after September 22, 1899; see The Miami Metropolis on those two
dates.
 7. The area where the original dense, tropical hardwood forest
remained at that time; roughly Northeast Second Avenue to the bay from
Flagler Street to Northeast Sixth Street. There dwellers lived in small,
poorly built houses and shacks and were dependent on shallow surface
wells and privies. See Annual Report of the Supervising Surgeon of
the Marine-Hospital Service of the United States for the Fiscal Year
1899 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1901), 731-33.
 8. Dengue fever is a virus infection characterized by chills, fever,
severe headache, pains in the muscles of the back and extremities and a rash
on the trunk spreading to the extremities. It is also called "breakbone
fever" because of the severity of the pain. In 1899, dengue was
frequently confused with yellow fever, but the appearance of the rash,
absence of albumin in the urine, together with the rarity of death
usually meant the disease was dengue rather than yellow fever.
 9. Jackson's Report to Porter, January 20, 1900, Report, SBH,
March 15, 1900, 46.
 10. Ibid.
 11. Hereinafter "Dr. Jackson" or simply "Jackson" will be used
 to indicate James M. Jackson. Dr. John W. Jackson, who was not