Accidents, Heart
Disease Are Main
Causes Of Death
JUNEAU, Nov. 22—Accidents
and heart disease took more lives
in Alaska in 1953 than any other
cause, according to figures recent
ly compiled by the Bureau of
Vital Statistics in the Alaska De
partment of Health.
Per 100,000 persons, the death
rate from accidents was 122.9,
while the heart disease rate was
122.4 in Alaska last year. These
contrasted with stateside figures
where the death rate from acci
dents was 60.8 per 100,000 per
sons, or less than half of Alaska’s
rate. The stateside heart disease
rate, however, was 357.6, or near
ly three times as high as in Al
aska.
These rates conform with Al
aska’s “young population” where,
of approximately 205,000 persons,
only some 5,650 are over 64 years
of age, according to F. E. Kester,
vital statistics bureau director.
Tuberculosis dropped to fourth
place as cause of death in Alaska
in 1953 with a rate of 60.5 per
sons per 100,000 population. This
is nearly five times as high as
the stateside rate which was 12.5
in 1953. Among the white popula
tion, the rate was only 3.6 in
Alaska as contrasted with 10.2 in
the States. Among the non-white
population, the rate was nearly
10 times as high in Alas'-a (300.3>
as in the States (31.9 > per 100,000
persons.
The third highest cause of death
in Alaska last year wKs congeni
Dept, of Public Welfare
Takes Census Of Blind
Persons In Territory
JUNEAU—The Alaska Dept, of
Public Welfare, through its Dis
trict offices and agents, is taking
a census of persons in the Terri
tory who are considered blind.
From time to time the Depart
ment has been asked to furnish
information regarding the number
of blind persons in the Territory
and has been unable to do so.
These requests have come from
various physicians, legislators, in
terested agencies, and service or
ganizations concerned with the
problem of visually handicapped
persons.
The census is not elaborate and
does not require a medical diag
nosis or technical determination
of blindness. A schedule is being
issued which asks five questions
in relation to vision and a descrip
tion of the eyes, and from this
information the Department ex
pects to secure a reasonably ac
curate estimate of the number of
people in Alaska |who are con
sidered blind by those in their
communities.
tal malformations and diseases
peculiar to early infancy in which
the rate was 77.1 as compared
with 53.2 per 100,000 in the States.
Influenza and pneumonia were
in fifth place as cause of death
in the territory in 1953, followed
by cancer, senility and ill-defined
causes, and cerebral hemorrhage.
Death from all other causes was
118.5 persons per 100,000 popula
tion. Total number of deaths in
Alaska in 1953 was 1,303.
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Manual on Health Services
For School-Age Children
Issued By Dept, of Health
JUNEAU—Distribution through
out Alaska began last week of a
little manual for the “aid of all
those who are concerned with
school health services.” Issued
jointly by the Territorial Dept, of
Education and the Alaska Dept,
of Health, the booklet was accep
ted by the Alaska Board of Health
at its annual meeting in Juneau
Nov. 8-10. It is entitled “Health
Services for School-Age Children
in Alaska.”
Mrs. Andrew Nerland, health
board member from Nome and
acting chairman of the annual
meeting, said “We approved the
manual heartily as a valuable
tool that is attractive and will be
easy to use.”
Contents of the manual include
discussion of the school health
program, healthful school envir
onment, health services and edu
cation, together with specific in
structions, information Tind sug
gestions relating to each.
The booklet measures 7x8!/2 in.,
contains 56 pages and is illustra
ted with simple line drawings.
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the number of guns.
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