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of Early Public Schools History of Early Agricultural Relations
in Dade County (Privately printed, 1957), 49-50.
 25. Olive Chapman Lauther, The Lonesome Road (Miami: Center
Printing Co., 1963), 80-83.
 26. J. K. Dorn, "Recollections of Early Miami," Tequesta,
(1949), 56.
 27. Porter, Report, SBH, March 15, 1900, 111.
 28. "The Fever Scare," The Miami Metropolis, September 29,
1899,7.
 29. Jackson's Report to Porter, January 20, 1900, Report, SBH,
March 15, 1900, 61.
 30. The Miami Metropolis, October 27, 1899, 7. See also
DuPuis, History of Early Medicine, 57.
 31. "The Doctors Disagree," The Miami Metropolis, October
20, 1899,2.
 32. Letters, sealed in envelopes, were individually pounded with a
wooden mallet, the head of which was studded with several large nails.
Having been thus perforated, the letter was placed on a rack, in a chest
containing burning sulfur candles. The fumes of the candles were thus
allowed to permeate the letter in hopes of killing the contagion. See
"Florida Health Notes," State Board of Health of Florida 51
(September 1959): 145.
 33. The Miami Metropolis, October 17, 1899, 7.
 34. Lauther, The Lonesome Road, 82.
 35. Kemp, "Coconut Grove The Pioneer Paradise," 10.
 36. The Miami Metropolis, November 3, 1899, 1.
 37. "Camp M'Adam," The Florida Times-Union and Citizen,
November 6, 1899, 2.
 38. Ibid., 4.
 39. For a more detailed description of Camp McAdam see The
Annual Report of the Supervising Surgeon-General, 1899 (op. cit.
endnote # 7), 740-42.
 40. The Miami Metropolis, September 22, 1899, 6.
 41. Saidee Kolb, interview by author, July 9, 1958.
 42. W. W. Prout, "History of Miami's Past, Present Conditions and
Future Importance Told in Detail," The Miami Metropolis, April 24, 1905, 1.
 43. "The Emergency Hospital," The Miami Metropolis,
November 3, 1899, 7.
 44. Ibid.
 45. J. Y. Porter, "Looking Backward Over Fifty Years of Health