FROM'Tfl£-DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH -JUNEAU
The new ?or.rd cf *fPnlth of Alaska, created by the last Legislature
and providing for a full-time ^onmifvsloner of health met in Jiine.au last
week nnd ratified the'appointment of Dr, C. Earl Albrecht as Alaska's
first fulltime Commissioner.' Commissioner Albrecht’s salary was fixed
at $.3,400 for the first year with, annual raises to'meet the $10,000 set
by law at the end of the third year. Dr, Albrecht was appointed by the
Govern r following his release from the Army recently in which service
he had. been for the last three, and a half years, serving in the Medical
Corns with the rank 6f Colonel, . • •
loo °anrd, made up of Dr,. Dwight L, Cramer of Aetchlkan, Mrs,Katherine
Rehoe of Nome, and the Rev, R, Holland Armstrong of Anchorage, George
Preston, Sr,-, of Fairbanks, and Governor Ernest Gruening as Chairman,
endorsed tho programs, budgets and proposed plans for the riew Health
Department as submitted- by the Commissioner, It also provided that the
Commissioner.should plan formal education in public health administra
tion as outlined by the U,S» Public Health Service within three years.
General policies on health matters as in standard practice through*
out the States was made the goal of the Department with tho aim of
stabilizing Health Department, employees and drtrwing to the service ir.
Ala §ka more ’qualified personnel to remain permanently with the Depp-’tr
ment, The.Board commended tho staff of the Department on the excellent
work which h(ad been done during the difficult war years and called up n
everyone to e-ssist 1n the very important period In the immediate future.
Analysis of the various heal'th laws was presented by Attorney General
alph Rivers, rey'naling those acts which had been repealed by implies
ion as the re suit of the new law enacted by the last Legislature, The
tternoy General In his opinion revealed that Deputy Commissioners are
no linger provided under the new act and those .who have been serving
were to be notified' with special letters of thahks for the fine service
they had rendered. The health laws pertaining to the establishment of
local ocards of Health in areas other than incorporated towns was dis
cussed at great To ngth and 'it was d-ecided the existing law was excellent
t- meet the needs.of these areas. The uoard recommended the existing
law be well publicized to a'id communities in health protection. The
Be-rd decided that the health laws and regulations and such other mater
ial as the 6ommis.sioner thinks opportune be printed for distribution
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