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PUBLIC HEARING
1-1-3 U. 3. Army Office: of the Dist
ric Engineers has announced a Pub
lic Hearing in Anchorage on Satur
day, October 1st, concerning naviga
tion improvements tliere._
POL IC NCf
5 PR SAC BY WAlF1<
fhe following is a communication
rrom the Alaska Department of Health:
Reassurance that there is no evidence
of the spread of poliomyelitis by
public water supplies was given re
cently by one of the nation’s lead
ing epidemiologists, Kenneth F. Maxcy
M.D., Professor of Epidemiology at
Johns Hopkins University. Vriting
for the Journal of the American Veter
'forks Association, technical and
professional society of the nation’s
water works experts, Dr. Maxcy sur
veyed the results of half a century
of epidemiological studies and lab
oratory experiments by a host of in
vestigators. In not a single one of
these investigations was there fc\..d
convincing evidence that pollution
of a community water supply was res
ponsible for exposure of consumers
to infection with the polio virus.
'That Dr. Maxcy found to be definitely
established is the fact that the prin*
cipal'means of communication of polio,
not unlike other common contagious
diseases, in some form of personal
contact, or, as he expressed it, some
i1*intimate personal association....
realised in communal living of any
social group, from the primitive to
the moot advanced, at any time of
year, in any part of the world.''And
though it logically follows from
[this that the disease could be spread
Indirectly by flies, milk or water
bontominatod with the discharge from
'infected persons, all attempts to
demonstrate the polio virus in sus
pected drinking water have so far
^een unsuccessful.
Although ho urged a continued inves
tigation of the effect of standard
Water purification practices on tho
removal or inactivation of viruses,
Dr. Maxcy did not hesitate to state
that the present methods of water
treatment, and particularly the dosage
of free chlorine customarily used in
v/ater disinfection, afforded an ado
quote safeguard. "Present day know
ledge," he concluded, "does not jus
tify anxiety ov^r the safety of pub
lic water supplies so far as the
spread of poliomyelitis is concerned."
RE iURNEC 70 FALft/Ek
Mrs. Harriet Mealy returned to Palmer
last week and has resumed her duties
in the Falmer School. Mrs. Mealy is
teaching the fi*th and sixth grades
combination room which has been taughl
by Mrs. Blom and Mrs. Blunck in her
absence.
CN A Vi SIT
Jimmy Harrison flew to the States on
a visit this past week.