FDOH History Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 3. Last Name of the man who served as the Deputy State Epidemiologist for the State Health Office in 1989.
  2. 6. Serving as the State Board of Health Maritime he was responsible for inspecting foreign ships arriving at port in south Florida.
  3. 7. The first licensed Midwife in the State of Florida she later in her career pioneered a series of midwifery institutes to train nurse midwives throughout the state of Florida.
  4. 8. Serving as Florida's first Public Health Officer. He was instrumental in discovering that yellow fever was carried and spread by mosquitoes.
  5. 9. Location of Florida’s first department of health
  6. 11. Mayor of Tampa, FL in 1878, this Physician was instrumental in the commissioning of the first Department of Health and devoted his Medical career to study of Yellow Fever.
  7. 12. What month was the State Board of Health Founded?
  8. 13. Insect vector for some of the world’s most horrendous diseases it was labeled by National Geographic as the world’s “most dangerous bug”.
  9. 14. This locomotive was responsible for disseminating health information throughout the state of Florida using exhibits, models, and panel texts.
  10. 16. An acute viral disease that plagued Florida in the mid and late -19th century overall it was responsible for affecting 19,000 Floridians state wide.
  11. 17. This Florida Governor was responsible for the formation of the state’s Department of Health.
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  1. 1. The inventor of modern air-conditioning
  2. 2. Famously known as a plague that spread throughout Europe for 3 full centuries, this disease also made an appearance in Florida during the 1920’s.
  3. 4. This Florida Governor’s wife died of Yellow Fever in the mid 19th century, a county bearing his last name.
  4. 5. During the Small Pox epidemic of 1896 this steam towboat assisted in the quarantine and controlling of this deplorable disease by way of Florida Ports.
  5. 8. Served as Florida’s Surgeon General in 1974, his name given to the building which currently serves as the main office for the Department of Health
  6. 10. This card was issued by Florida’s 1st surgeon general to anyone who was no longer capable of contracting or spreading the Yellow Fever virus.
  7. 14. Beginning in the 1800’s and continuing all the way to the 1970’s this magazine was responsible for informing Florida’s public of communicable diseases and relevant public health issues.
  8. 15. Florida’s longest serving State Health Officer under his leadership local health departments were established in every county by 1960.