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NOME, ALASKA, NOV. 30, 181#.
The great .European war has furnish
ed the most illuminating example of
the value of modern medical prophy
laxis that ha6 ever been presented to
popular understanding, tor centuries
war and pestilence have at all times
gene hand in hand, twin scourges of
i'eaitul aspect and alarming capacities,
and, what the former has failed to do
in accomplishing human destruction,
the other lots performed with a thor
oughness so complete as to cause the
records of mortality created by shot
Unu steei to sink into insignificance by
comparison.
it has oeen the role for centuries
that me losses in battle were as noth
ing lo the frigntful decimations caused
in me ranks of martial hosts by dis
ease, usually of a contagious nature,
a.ie iiistoiy of great wars disclose this
nit .11 .t bly.
in many cases the mortality caused
by the action of malignant diseases
lias exceeded those of actual conflict
by tens and hundreds and, bo far as
history discloses, not one war of ex
tended duration but that two at least
have perished from disease to one kill
ed in battle. In the majority of cases
the percentage haB been even greater.
Throughout the ages the shrill
trumpeting of the war horn has sum
moned in the battle standard a dead
lier des ructlve force, where human
life is concerned, than all the power
ful host grouped beneath its flaunting
folds. An unseen, cold and merciless
thing which spared not friend or foe
but seized upon the one as quickly
as the other and left behind a trail of
death more fatal to the cause than the
stoutest blows of the enemy.
From the far off days when the ear
liest of earthly potentates led his hosts
to battle, down through tho ages until
the last chapter had been written In
the recent Balkan struggle, the mighty
losses through the action of disease
have at all times been the most grisly
feature of war. Now, If the available
records are to be believed, all this has
been changed through the advancement
of science and medical prophylaxis. No
longer does the grim shadow of the 1
pestilence follow in the wake of march
ing armies and their camping place is
no longer a pest hole where death lurks
in the very oarth on which It stands.
True there is still a vast mortality save
In the moat thoroughly trained and
managed armies. Among this class,
however, the losses as compared to
those of earlier armies Is Infinitesimal.
According to tho best information ob
tainable, out of the vast hosts of Qer
many's grey clad warriors, numbering
at least six million, scarcely more than
twenty thousand have perished whose
death is directly rhargable to disease.
Of a possible seven million men placed
in the field by Britain and France, it
is said that less than seventy thousand
—less than one per cent—have come
to their death through the numerous
deadly scourges which were formerly
more dreaded than the strongest foe.
Compare these lasses for a moment
with those of our own civil war and
one at once realizes what modern med
ical prophylaxis has accomplished for
we find that out of a total of a trifle
more than two and three-quarters mil
lion men engaged on the union side,
slightly less than two hundred and {
thirty thousand perished from disease
—slightly leas than one-twelfth of the
total force engaged. As a matter ol .
lact the losses from disease sustained
by the German army Is but little
greater than would normally occur un
der more favorable conditions. Ger
many's reputed loss of twenty thou
sand men, if true, is but a trifle more
than would occur anion* the same
number of people under the ordinary
conditions of existence.
That this almost miraculous result
iias been achieved Is due almost en
tirely to scientific sanitation; to ln
oculatory prophylaxis and a general
attention to cleanness all of which
strike a deadly blow the one time |
army scourges through preventing
them from gaining a foothold. Typhoid,
that most dreaded of all diseases w’lth
which armies, were formerly afflicted,
has been all but banished through in
oculatory preventative measures and
cholera, smallpox, yellow fever and
a host of other malignant diseases
have either completely conquered or
held In such decisive check that losses
through their agency are becoming rare.
ALASKA”
NOTES
Seward Gateway.—Karl Vaughn and
vV. F. Weimer have bought the saw
mill and outflt from F. E. Youngs, at
me mine on Cooper vcreek. They will
move the plant down to Kenui Cake
and set It up somewhere at the upper
end.
Juneau is one place where soap box
oiaiors or street speakers are not wel
come. says an exchange. s>o strictly
.* the ordinance against street speak
iig enforced that permission was re
cently denied by the city council to
..uid religious meetings In the open air
.v.iere traffic might he interrupted.
Miners, prospectors and others hav
.ng demanded that a place to camp be
provided In the new town of Anchor
.ge. after the manner of the north, the
.naska engineering commission has set
apart a tract of land near the townsile
as a free camping ground. At one time
.ast month 150 campers occupied the
ground.
Skagway Is one of the few towns In
.he the north working on practically
a cash basis. The tax levy this year
.s only 10 mills. The town is equipped
w ith a fire-fighting apparatus which Is
.aid to have no superior on the coast,
t'ne water and lighting systems are
owned by private corporations, but
ihose concerns have established very
reasonable rates.
Two fishermen belonging to the crew
of the fishing schooner Chester Worth
.ngton were drowned in the vicinity
of Wrangell recently while attempting
to go ashore In a heavy sea. One of
the men was named Harry Coonan but
ihat of the other Is unknown. On the
same day E. Jossold, a Finnish fisher- j
man was found lying dead in a small
pool some distance from the town on 1
a small Island known as Dead Man isl- I
and. It Is supposed that he was strlck- j
en with an attack of heart failure while j
securing a drink from the spring.
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Fairbanks.—Word was received from
Valdez that the road commission had
! decided to make an appropriation of
<2,000 for work on the trail between
Tanana and the Koyukuk. For ten
years the people of the Koyukuk have
been trying to get an allotment for
work on the trail to Wiseman, but the
government has never been able to
grant the request
One reason why the road commis
sion has spent so little money on the
Koyukuk trail is because it Is so long
that It would take many thousands of
dollars to make even a small Impres
sion.
A new departure for the Alaska
Packers Association Is the packing of
a specialty under the r.ame of Arctic
salmon Paste, which has of late been
gaining the attention of the trade, and,
ihrough the demonstration conducted
:n the Food Products building at the
Panama Pacific International Expo
sition. has rapidly gained In popular
ity among consumers. This article,
which is Intended for use In sandwiches,
for picnics, luncheons, and the like. Is
a result of a long series of experiments
by the association, which was unwill
ing to place an article of this kind on
the market until assured that the pro
duct was right In every way.—Ex.
The Metlakahtla Indian commun
ity has been taken over by the
agents of the Department of the In
terior, according to coast papers, and
it is bQUavad that the controversy be
tween government officials and Father
Duncan, founder of the settlement,has
been tinallj sealed. Bulletin^, have
been posted stating that all buildings,
including the cannery, church, stwmill.
water works and all machinery In the
buildings have been taken over b>
agents of the department. A supply
of cans and other material In the can
nery have been left to Father Duncan,
us they were his personal property.
From now on the village which has
been much talked or for years as a un
que settlement, whose government Was
controlled solely by the natives and
Father Duncan, will be a nutlve settle
ment of tlie usual order and will come
directly under the regulations of the
government which are applicable In
such cases.—Record Citizen.
Parties arriving recently from the
lower river report that the depd body
of an Indian woman—the wife of
Twenty-five-mile Nicolai—wu4 found
near the Yukon three miles below
Kultag. The body was leaning over a
bunch of willows and there were no
Indications thut a struggle had taken
place.
However, some parties suspected
that the woman's husband was respon
sible for her death, and procured an
inquest by Dr, Lamb, commissioner ul
Nulato. The members of the coroner's
jury were divided In opinion, some
believing It a case of heart disease and
some believing Nicolai should be held.
Nicolai is said to have beaten his wife
on occasions.
No proceedings have been instituted
against him.
According to a recent issue of u
! publication issued by the Brunswick
j i ialke-Callender Company, the Alaska
engineering commission has been au
l.horized to construct a bowling alley
| and billiard room at Anchorage, for j
| i lie use of the men who are engaged in i
I C.e construction of the ruilroud. The
notice appearing in the publication de
oteu to billiards and pool is as fol
I lows:
■'Comptroller ot the Treasury Dow
ney, in a decision recently handed
I uown, authorized the president of the
Alaska engineering commission to con 1
I struct an amusement hall out of the
• .ppropriation set aside for the building
. i f tlie government railroad in Anchor
1 age. The hall is to be equipped with !
! billiard tables, b'wling alleys, and other j
inusements."
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