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NOME, ALASKA, DEC. 14, 1915.
■ liile we are priding ourselves on'
being the possessors oi an exceptional
ly favored section of tile world, in the'
matter of health conditions it is
some wnut startling to bo told that
"e are proportionately more diseasi
uuden ilian many of the countries we
ale accustomed to look upon as tile;
p.ague spots of tiie earth. It is some
what disconcertign to learn that in;
me matter of typhoid, for instance,.
• here were more cases of typhoid in
lie i nited States in 1913, with a I
population not half that of India, than
mere wete cases of plague in India
during the last world shocking out-!
leak Of that dreaded disease in 1909;|
and that there were four times as
many oases of typhoid in the United
states in 1912 than there were cases
of cholera in Russia during the epi
demic of 1910 when mankind stood
aghast at the freightful devastations
of that disorder. .,
These figures are taken from table8
prepared by Dr. McLaughlin of the
Marine Hospital service, who says in
an appended article that we are ac
cuslomed to consider with apprehen
sion tiie countries in which cholera
and plague occur frequently and des
ignate them as pest ridden countries
but do not consider the seriousness oi
the typhoid fever problem in our own
i ountry.
The tables prepared by McLaughlin
show that within the registration area
of the United States, in fifty cites hav
ing an aggregate population of
over twenty million the average ty
phoid death rate for last year was
twenty-one per hundred thousand in
hlbitants. In one city the rate amount
'd to 86.7 per hundred thousand and
.n several others it amounted to forty
five or over. Compare this with the
figures given for ten of the largest
cities of northern adn central Europe
containing an aggregate population of
slightly over fifteen millions.
We find that there the average
death rate per hundred thousand of
population was only 3.4 during a. pe
i iod .of years from 1901 to 1912, and,
.in the last mentioned year, the death
rate had dropped to 2.5, The differ
ence Is doubtles astonishing to a
people who have been priding them
selves on their health statistics. In
Europe it is considered that a death
late of thirteen to fifteen per hundred
thousand constitutes a rather serious
reflection on tiie sanitary conditions
and the water supply, yet we are ac
customed to look with equanimity on a
death rate that is more than twenty
five per cent greater than what is
considered a most serious and abnor
mal state in Europe.
Also these figures are far below the
average of the fifty American cities
referred to, in which the death rate
was twenty-one per each hundred
thousand of population. Leaving out
of account such causes of typhoid as
infected milk and food and the deaths
caused by known contact carriers, such
as flies and other insects, much of
this great death rate is made possible
simply by lack of attention to the
water supplies and to the general
careless of the people with respect
to sanitary measures. McLaughlin
says that nearly ninety per cent of all
cases are ilue solely iu water supplies
ttiuiu aie cunuiiuiiiaieu by contact
»un sewerage. it is uierefore sug
0esteu tn.a tuts gieat ueatti rate can
. e materially lesscuctl by Hie mere
precaution oi uuciiug the water sup
plies of our towns anti cities—u'pre
autiou, t>y the way, tbal is employed
,.y very lew of our cities.
Not uuij is tins deuui late from ty
phoid lever lu be deplored on humani
tarian grounds but the occurrence of
such a large number of cases reprc
jeiiis an economic loss so great us to
oe almost incalculable. \V hile there
is a general tendency on the part of
the health authorities of the larger
cities to bring about more sanitaiy
until turns, the problem Is one that
.s so big and so vital that It demands
i far greater attention than Is given
it present. In fact. It Is one that our
egislators and city authorities should
ook upon as a menace of the most
tlaruling character and should feel the
bligatlon to adopt more vigorous I
nethods of preventing this enormous
vaste of human energy, earning capa
ity and human life
ALASKA
NOTES
Seward has been visited by an eartli
' make.
It is said tiial the winter population
it Dawson will be about 1500.
The tight over the possession of tide
.unds at Juneau keeps the lawyers
■ iusy.
ui develop the Nevada creek mine
■a Douglas island, $350,000 has beet
raised.
Albert E. Eucy, of Juneau, has been j
ppointed deputy Lnited States 19111-i
dial at Yakutat.
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Work on the new s,ooo ton mill furl
.tie Aiuska-Juneau Gold Alining Coni
.ny uas started.
Government experts now believe tha
■ ue high grade held of coal extends
lom tne Alatanuska to the Nenana.
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Amos Sprunger, who escaped his
tuaids at Fairbanks, was captured by 1
<n Indian stirred to action by a $50
reward.
Portland business men are again
planning a line of steamers to operate
oetween that port and Southeastern
Alaska.
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The Chi na mission school, closedI
two years ago, has been reopened by
Aiiss Beulah Frederick, a well known
missionary worker of the north
Bed Alex. AleDonald, a Klondiker of i
.he 90s, dropped dead on Woodchop
iers creek, near Fairbanks, last month,
t victim of heart failure.
Sixty-two cars of fresh halibut, 1,
,50,000 pounds, were shipped east over
he Grand Trunk Pacific from Prince
.iupert during the month of Septem-1
her.
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A Fairbanks doctor claims to have|
solved the fuel problem for Alaska ]
tie suggests raising lots of spuds, mak-j
ing alcohol out of the spuds, and thefti
burn the alcohol.
During the season Just closed, the^
White Pass Company shipped some- j
thing like 600 tons of coal from Tan
vilus where It was mined by the Five'
f ingers Coal Company.
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The China bunkhouse at the Shakanj
.annery bunted one night last week i
dost of the inmates escaped by Jump
ng out of the windows. Only two bod
es w'ere found in the ruins
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Judge Jennings, of the first Alaska I
Jiylsion, has decided that the ordi
nance passed by the town council of
Ketchikan imposing a tax of ten dol- j
ars a day on peddlers, is invalid. He j
states that ten dolars a day is exorbl-!
vuit and was evidently intended to bei
urohibitive. There is no doubt but the
!
Judge has discovered the real intention
f that town council. Douglas Island
News.
The last of the famous Alaska oust
cases is ou trial at Beattie. In this cast
Die government contests the coal
claims ai Cape Lisbon, on the ground*
Lhat the original locator was a British
subject.
Just to be pluin about it, the acts ol
| that territorial legislature in matters
• aid back by the organic act, will no
! doubt be found to be illegal, the last
ac of them. This list includes schools,
ash, occupation tax and the Uquol
I question.
Through tiie klndnes of Airs. Henri
! Brie, the News man was permitted to
I sample some excellent Jelly, made from
.uoapples laised at Haines, Alaska. It
is without question that the Haines
•action will soon be known at "tne
Wenatchee of the north.—Douglas Isi
nd News.
An exchange says: Dr. Brooks con
firms tiie probability of the existence'
of lurge deposits of ollTfci Alaska, but
be also suggooto iliat the government
lias withdrawn all oil lands from regis
tiy. Alaska is getting to be like a jew-1
eler’s show window. Some day some
desperate citizen may just naturally!
bust" . in the front and help liinisi .f. i
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Asked lu stale what, in their opinion
j to a greater extent than any other im
provement in conditions, would help
j to make life more liveable iti the In
lieiior, nine persons out ot ten would,
ailiiout hesitation, declaie lor a com
plete mail service such us they were
used to back home." in winter, when
reading matter is much more in de
mand Ilian uuring tile busy days ol:
summer, the limitations of tiie present
sen ice are particularly irksome, auu |
li is nut lo be WUlldo'ea at mat toe j
pal simoiiiousuess of tiie government ;
in tins regard is a subject of mum i
I embittered censure. A campaign with
Ail the mail all Lite time" tor lit '
ologau should prove univeisally pop i 1
.ar.—1' aii minks Times.
Tile Yukon government lias git a
jilicial notice by advertisement in ihe
Lawson News and the Weekly News
.at the government is prepared to j
assist prospectors lo get to the head- ■
waters of oatlying streams in the tci -
. 1 tori', 'the notice is over tiie name ;
•f A. i\ Englehardt, teirltorial sec- 4
•tJiry, and reads as follows.
l'rospectors desiring nianspoiia
.ion to head of navigation on tribu
taries of Yukon river art- requested;
to communicate their names, address
es and proposed destination to the
commissioner.
"The foregoing arrangement is in
accordance with the policy laid down
uy the government to aid prospectors
to get into distant parts of the terri-!
mry with hopes that they make new I
discoveries of mineral, and thus aid
in the general development of the ter
ritory. In previous years similar as
sistance has been given to boats going <
up the Belly and other streams reach
ing remote localities,
"It is understood that several have '
submitted their names and that pos- j <
sibjy a party will be leaving soon for <
Belly or AIcAlillan, and possibly some <
r other side streams. The commis- . J
-loner is receding the name of those (
wishing to go." <
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