HEALTH COUNCIL
NEWS
The BCG team of doctors and
nurses from the Territorial De
partment of Health begins tuber
culin testing Monday, April 30,
and will remain in Palmer the
rest of the week to read the tests
and give BCG vaccinations as
necessary, Valley Public Health
Nurse Marjorie Myren announced
today.
Miss Myren emphasized the
fact that tuberculin tests and
BCG vaccinations are highly de
sirable for all individuals under
50 who have had no history of tu
berculosis.
Persons reacting positively to
tuberculosis tests do not need the
BCG vaccination; also persons
who know they have a positive
reaction to the tuberculin test
need not attend the clinic. Their
reaction to the tuberculin test
will not change. Only if a positive
reaction to the test is acquired
through vaccination, will a future
reaction ever be negative. In that
event, a new BCG vaccination
would be desirable.
Permission Slip Required
School children will be given
permission slips next week for
parental approval of the testing
end vaccinating. These slips
should be signed and returned to
the school without delay since
school children will be tested the
first day of the clinic.
The BCG program has been
carried to almost all Alaskan vil- ,
lages, and is now being made
available to the cities of Alaska.
More than 22,000 Alaskans have
been tuberculin tested since the
program began in 1948. Of this
number, 8,000 have received BCG'
vaccinations. The others, totalling
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about 64 percent, were positive
reactors to the tuberculin test.
BCG vaccination does not con
fer total immunity or permanent
resistance to tuberculosis. The
following report of a study made
with new born infants reveals
the advantages of BCG vaccina
tion. The children in this study
came from households in which
no tuberculosis could be demon
strated by X-ray examinations.
The infants were vaccinated or
accepted as controls (not vacci
nated) before they left the hospi
tal and no isolation was practiced.
Vaccinated during the first
week of life were 1,417 infants.
Three months later more than 99
percent of these infants had be
come tuberculin positive. Six and
a half years after the single vac
cination, almost 80 percent of
those tested were still tuberculin
positive. Among the 1,414 in
fants in the unvaccinated con
trol group, 44 percent were posi
tive at the end of eight and a
half years. This high rate of tu
berculin conversion in the con
trol group indicates the degree of
exposure for both vaccinated and
control groups. There were 11
cases of tuberculosis with one
death in the vaccinated group and
39 cases with seven deaths in the
controls. This study had been in
progress for 10 years at the time
of reporting.
Vaccinations Cut Death Rate
In another study made among
3,000 individuals in the United
States and Alaska, it was shown
that BCG vaccinations reduced
ALTAR AND ROSARY SOC.
INVITE PARISH WOMEN
Mrs. Esther Brockbauer will be
hostess at the meeting of St. Mi
chael’s Altar and Rosary Society,
to be held in her home May 1 at
8 p. m. All women of the parish
are invited, Mrs. Robert Johns,
secretary, announced.
Simpson off for Season
Jim Simpson has left for Mc
Kinley Park for a summer’s work
with the Alaska Road Commis
sion.
tuberculosis deaths to one-sev
enth and the number of tubercu
losis cases to one-fifth.
If chances of escaping tubercu
losis are five times greater with
BCG vaccination, it follows that
everyone who has not built up a
resistance against the disease
should attend the BCG clinic,
public health officials point out.
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WASILLA
PERSONALS
By Barbara Carter
Wasilla school is staging an
other successful basket social
dance Saturday night, April 21.
The junior class is offering for
entertainment ping pong, target
practice, dart games, cards and
dancing. Baskets will be auc
tioned at 10 p.m.
* * *
Celebrating their 16th birth
days this month are Patsy Car
son, Barbara Carter and Jerry
Cattle.
* * *
Motion pictures are being
shown Friday nights in the hall
next to the Hill Top Cafe.
* * *
Farewell parties for Mrs. Frank
Jones were given by the Home
makers, and by Mrs. Oscar John
ATTENTION!
Moose Members, Palmer Lodge No. 793
ELECTION OF OFFICERS AT NEXT
REGULAR MEETING. TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1951
son. Mrs. Jones left Wednesday
by boat for Seattle, then will
visit her mother in California^
Mr. Jones will join her when
school closes here.
SHOE REPAIRING
All hMvy sewing of leather
and canvas now done at
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in, Vt cabin, 2 green houses.
$3,150.00.
5-acre tracts on Hwy.
2-lots, in town. Water & sewer
140-acres. Fishhook Rd.
240-acre farm, terms.
Listings Wanted
Phone 124J3 — Palmer, Alaska
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PAINTING CONTRACTORS
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10:45 a.m. each Thursday (Lear* Anchorage ai 9:15 a.m.)
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8:30 a.xn. Friday
Leaves Anchorage from 4th Ave. Travel Bureau
(Fourth Avenue Theatre Bldg.)
Leaves Palmer from in front of Post Office
Leaves Valdez from Valdez Hotel
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Palmer's favorite music and comedy show
Old-Time Western — Modern
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Palmer, Alaska