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ALASKA'S FIRST SARATORIUT'
^250,000.00 for the constric
tion of r. tuberculosis sanatorium
for the cs.ro of Alaska fstives was
vi.rtur.ll7 assured wh
A nr.ropri rti on3 Coroni
ns..rtod this suit in
m the Senate
ttoo recently
the Interior
Department Appropriation Bill end
tho donate r.nd House Conference
Com'nit too retained tho item* Del
egate Linend appeared before both
groups and strongly urged that
they include provisions for tho
car', of tho tuberculous in tho
Appropriation Bill. He pointed
cut thattho condition was becom
ing increasingly serious and that
immediate action was necessary if
the disease was to be checked.
While this sum is not sufficient
to provide care for more than a
small percentage of the cases
which exist; Office of Indian. Af
fairs officials arc hopeful that
future Congressional action will
provide funds for additional hos
pital facilities, sufficient to . .
take care of the needs of the na
tive people of the Territory.
Meanwhile, the question of
adequate facilities for tho care
of white cas,.3 of this disease in
tho Territory is unanswered. The
Territorial Department of Public
VoIfare, spends each year, a con
siderable portion of tho funds
allotted to it for tho relief of
destitution on the t' • trier e
of tuberculosis in saratorl a ru
tho States. However, then ore
not sufficient funds available let
the Department to care for r.11 thos<'
who need assistance, and officials
there arc constantly confronted wibu
a v/aiting list of persons 5n need of
immediate care. It is ovj f.6nt that
these infected people, forced to re
main in their humes, in c •■•AStant
contact with members of their famih,
ics, constitute a health menace, not
-only to tho members of t’.io:- f ami li
lies but to the entire population
of the community in v/rd eh they re
side. It Is not ~ reasonabl; to
expect that there will be any mater
ial decrease in the .-hath rate from
tuberculosis in the Terria ry until
satisfactory provisions ar.j made
for the isolation and car . f those
people.
81 now cases of tuberculosis
were reported to tho Turrit-, rial De
partment of Health during the 3
v/ockly reporting per5 oc's t • . April
81,1941 to June 9,IS 11. :A: does
net include 83 cases which ./ere fir
st discovered by a chock f the May
death certificates.
1940 GOAL SAL"
The 1940 Christmas S 1 Sale '
was by far tho most successful drive ;
in tho history of tho Asstriction.
Receipts to date are approximately
20^3 above last years record high,
the total so far is about .7,250.CO
and late returns arc still coming
in. This amounts to a remarkable
10 y per capita. Almost every comm
unity in tho Territory shared in tho
gain. A study of tho const'.’uction
and maintenance cost of sanatoria
of various sizes has been a tar tee?, by
a special committee of the Ass’n.
hr.T.L.Policy is chairman -f tho
group. Dr.hasten- has recently held
clinics in Gitka, Skagv.ay . nd Haines
and. plans to visit Ketchikan in the
very near future, hone of these
towns have been visited, ty the cli
nics for some time, localities in th
Interior which had never b fere been
visited, having boon the scones of
activity of this service Curing the
p- st year.
hake haste carefully.