Annual Report
Of Tuberculosis
f Association
The annual report of the Alas
ka Tuberculosis Association,
given by Mrs. Bess A. Wunn, ex
ecutive secretary of the organi
zation, is now being distributed
throughout the Territory. In that
report a break-down account of
receipts and disbursements for
the past year is briefly reviewed
and plans for the coming year are
presented. Featuring future ac*iv
ities will be the cooperation be
tween the Association, the Terri
torial Department of Health and
the Office of Native Affairs.
“When there is full coordination
between the agencies,” explained
Dr. C. Earl Albrecht, Commission
er of Health, “then plans benefi
r cial to the whole of the Territory
can be carried out with a mini
mum of effor.”
An agreement was drawn up
between the Association and the
Department of Health in which
the sum of $11,625.00 was con
ributed to the Department, the
sum tentatively earmarked by the
^ executive board of the Associa
T tion for various projects. This
fund will enable the Health De
partment to secure additional
Federal funds, since the Federal
government has available for al
lotment to the Territory a sum
equal to the amount expended by
the Department of Health for tu
berculosis control work. Unless
the projects outlined by the board
prove impractical or too difficult
of attainment, they will be carried
out. It is realized, however, that
as the program progresses, better
ideas for growth may unfold. Co
operating in the work will be Dr.
E. W. Norris, District Medical Di
0 rector of U. S. Public Health and
Medical Director for the Indian
Service.
Last year the sum of $5410.00
was donated by the Association to
the Department for an x-ray pro
gram, the main portion being allo
cated for the x-ray of High School
students. Due to lack of personnel,
and film, the program was not
completed. Because of the scar
ci4y of film. Alaska’s share can
not now be allo'ted for the x-ray
■f specific groups, such as stu
dents, but must be spread
throughout the Territory and used
for the re-examinaion of contacts
and for the follow-up of reputed
cases. The $4500.00 remaining will
be used for the x-rays of medical
ly indigent persons falling within
these classifications and what is
left retained for future x-ray pro
grams.
Last year the Association paid
rehabilitation expenses for Alas
kan patients in Washington sana
toriums. and it will continue this
work. There are 25 patients in
Riverton and Laurel Beach sana
toriums, both located near Seattle.
Subjects ranging from High
School studies to technical courses
are taught by a full-time teacher.
An occupational therapist instructs
in woodcarving, sewing, leather
work, shoemaking and other ac
tivities. The Association also con
tributed to the central library.
This year $5000.00 of the contri
bution to the Department was set
aside for the rehabilitation of tu
berculosis patients in Alaska. A
start has been made on this pro
gram and if feasible, it may be
that in time a rehabilitation di
rector may be employed, in which
case the program can be broad
ened. Other proposed projects in
clude x-ray equipment located
strategically in the Territory and
such morale-builders as a radio
and loud speakers plus a movie
projector and screen for the Skag
way Sanatorium.
Another item is the contribu-*
tion of $3000.00 for the crippled
children’s program. Dr. Berneta
M. Block, head of the Crippled
Children’s program, inserting a
few paragraphs into the report,
tells of the great need for aid in
this work.
One of last year’s activities,
soon to be completed, is the tak
ing a kodachrome slides that re
late a story showing the details
of the home nursing of tuberculo
sis patients. As soon as the copies
r.rj made these will be ready for
distribution around the Territory. I
Native people posed for the slides.:
From donations made to the
Heal.h Department prior to 1943,
the sum of $3,203.55 remained.
Approximately S50.00 of this
went for the training of a bacter
iologist in x-ray technique, per
sons trained in the taking of x
rays being otherwise impossible
to obtain; and the remainder paid
reconversion expenses attendant
upon the installaion of x-ray ma
chinery on the M. S. HYGENE,
health boat giving service
throughout southeastern Alaska.
Also collaborating in the report
were Dr. Norris, with a history of
the Skagway Sanatorium; and Dr.
Albrecht, telling the present sta
tus of tuberculosis in the Territory.
Both emphasize the fact that out of
an estimated 4000 cases in the
Territory, at the present time there
are only 193 beds in Alaska and
that, as fast as possible, we need
to find nurses and hospital attend
ants, so that we can make avail
able the remainder of the beds
at the Skagway Sanatorium, also
they agree that we need more
sanatoriums, enough to hospital
ize all infectious cases. The tu
berculous are cared for in other
lands, places considered not so far
advanced as Alaska, so according
to Dr. Norris, “Alaska immedi
ately must follow up the start that
has been made toward the control
of tuberculosis because the prob
lem will never be of less magni
tude than it is today.”
JUNE AND JOAN ENGSTROM
LEAVE FOR SCHOOL
June and Joan Engstrom left
by plane to be in time for the
opening of school in the States.
Their parents, Mr. and Mrs. H.
Engstrom, are completing the
mining season in the Kougarok.
LEGAL ADVERTISMENT "
ORDINANCE No. 310
AN ORDINANCE OF THE
rTTY O^ NOME, ALASKA, IN
REFERENCE TO INTOXICAT
ING LIQUORS AND BEVER
AGES'
BE IT ORDAINED AND EN
ACTED BY THE COMMON
COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
NOME, as follows:
SECTION I—It shall be unlaw
ful for any person, including cor
porations, to sell, barter, give, or
deliver, to any intoxicated person,
any intoxicating liquor or bever
age.
SECTION II—It shall be unlaw
ful for any person, including cor
porations, to sell, barter, give, or
deliver, to an habitual drunkard,
any intoxicating liquor or bever
age: PROVIDED, that in all pros
ecutions under this section, the
fact of one being an habitual
drunkard may be established by
evidence of general reputation of
such.
SECTION III—It shall be un
lawful for any person, including
corporations, to sell, barter, give,
or deliver, to any person under
the age of twenty-one »21> years,
any intoxicating liquor or bever
age: PROVIDED that "any per
son" as herein used shall not in
clude a father or mother of a per
son under the age of twenty-one
years, or any practicing medical
doctor or nurse: PROVIDED FUR
THER that the fact that a person
under the age of twenty-one years
has represented himself as being
over this age, shall be no defense
to prosecutions under this section.
SECTION IV—It shall be un
lawful for any person under the
age of twenty-one (21) years, to
solicit, incite, or induce, any per
I son to furnish him or her with any
intoxicating liquor or beverage.
SECTION V — Principal and
agent shall each be liable for any
violation of this ordinance; and a
prosecution, conviction, or acquit
tal, of one, shall constitute no de
fense or bar to a prosecution of
the other for the same violation.
SECTION VI—Any person vio
lating any provision of this ordin
ance upon conviction thereof,
shall be punished by a fine in any
amount not exceeding the sum of
one hundred ($100.00> dollars; or
by imprisonment for any length
of time not exceeding thirty <30)
days; or by both such fine and
imprisonment in the discretion of
the Magistrate.
SECTION VII—If any provision
of this ordinance be declared in
valid by a Court of competent
jurisdiction, such invalidity shall
not affect other provisions herein
contained.
SECTION VIII — Concurrently
with the effective date of this or
dinance, Ordinance No. 307, and
all other ordinances in conflict
herewith, stand repealed.
PASSED by the Common Coun
cil of the City of Nome, Alaska, in
regular session assembled the 27th
day of August, 1945.
APPROVED the 27 th day of
August, 1945.
EDWARD M. SEIDENVERG.
Mayor.
ATTEST:
CARRIE M. McLAIN,
Clerk
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3rd, 1945.
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