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Tuberculin Sensitivity In Alaska
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(From the "ATA Netfs")
Figures obtained from the BCG
program in Alaska have been
compiled by the statistician con
nected with the Alaska Depart
ment of Health and will shortly
be published in the American
Journal of Nursing.
Briefly, these figures show a
positive reaction to the tuberculin
test in the Kuskokwim and Yukon
River deltas among the children
of ages 5 to 8 years of 89 %, which
is probably the highest in the
world. This does not mean that
these children have TB; but it
does mean that they have been
exposed to massive infection.
There was a time, not too long
ago, when it was believed that
certain races, notably Indians and
Negroes, had a peculiar sensitiv
ity to tuberculosis, that as races
they had not been in contact with
TB long enough to have developed
a degree of immunity. That theory
is no longer accepted.
Dr. J. A. Myers, one of the
foremost authorities on TB in the
U.S., attributes the greater inci
dence among the minority races
to poorer living conditions, and
also the poorer car^, which has
been available to them.
Ex-Pentagon Clvef Says
Defense Dept. Suffers
From Inside Competition
PHILADELPHIA, UP) — A one
time Pentagon chief said Wed
nesday night if the American
people knew the truth about bitter
rivalries in the armed services
they would demand a “wholesale
reorganization” of the Defense
Department.
Sen. Stuart Symington, (D-Mo>,
former secretary of the Air Force,
told the Philadelphia Bulletin’s
seventh annual forum the public
is not being given the truth about
the defense effort and ‘•continu
ance of that failure may destroy
us.”
“The Department of Defense is
suffering from inside competition,
and the American people are suf
fering because of it. If the Penta
gon operated under a unification
law which gave efficient business
and military administration, with
less service friction, we’d get far
more defense for far less money,”
he added.
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Our own doctors in Alaska who
are actively in touch with the na
tive cases and the white cases re
port that both respond in like
degree to treatment.
So we cannot excuse this high
degree of tuberculin sensitivity
among the delta Eskimos by say
ing that they are racially more
sensitive to the tubercle bacillus.
The rate of positive tuberculin
results among the natives in
southeastern Alaska, where living
conditions are very much better
than in the more primitive areas,
and where the hospital program
has been speeded up, runs around
22% for the same ages as was the
unbelievably high figure of 89%
for the Kuskokwim and Yukon
deltas.
The facts are that Alaska has
nowhere nearly enough hospital
beds, present or prospective, to
take out of these primitive vil
lages their active cases that are
spreading a massive infection.
The poor nutrition and crowded
housing create a hot bed for the
development of the TB germs.
Ice Pool Dates
Since 1917, when the Pool
was started, the- ice has gone
out at Nenana as follows:
1917— April 30 .11:30 a.m.
1918— May 11. 9:33 a.m.
1919— May 3. 2:33 p.m.
1920— May 11.10:45 a.m.
1921— May 11.,6:42 a.m.
1922— May 12. 1:20 p.m.
1923— May 9. 2:00 p.m.
1924— May 11. 3:10 p.m.
1925— May 7. 6:32 p.m.
1926— April 26 . 4:03 p.m.
1927— May 13. 5:42 a.m.
1928— May 6. 4:25 p.m.
1929— May 5. 3:41 p.m.
1930— May 8. 7:03 p.m.
1931— May 10. 9:23 a.m.
1932— May 1.10:15 a.m.
1933— May 8. 7:30 p.m.
1934— April 30 . 2:07 p.m.
1935— May 15. 1:32 p.m.
1936— April 30 .12:58 p.m.
1937— May 12. 8:04 p.m.
1938— May 6. 8:14 p.m.
1939— April 29 . 1:26 p.m.
1940— April 20 . 3:27 p.m.
1941— May 3. 1:50 a.m.
1942— April 30 . 1:28 p.m.
1943— April 28 . 7:22 p.m.
1944— May 4. 2:08 p.m.
1945— May 16. 9:41 a.m.
1946— May 5. 4:40 p.m.
1947— May 3. $:53 p.m.
1948— May 13.11:13 p.m.
1949— May 14.12:39 p.m.
1950— May 6. 4:14 p.m.
1951— April 30 . 5:54 p.m.
1952— May 12. 5:04 p.m.
Farouk Nightclubs With
Blonde While Narriman
Is In Switzerland
ROME, UP) — Ex-King Farouk
night - clubbed until the early
hours Friday with a long-haired
blonde “French model,” shortly
after his 19-year-old wife Narri
man left for Switzerland.
In Geneva, Farouk’s mother-in
law, Mrs. Silas Sadeck, told news
men her daughter had decided on
a “complete and definite separa
tion” from the ex-monarch but
“there is no question whatsoever
of a divorce.”
Mrs. Sadeck, who is travelling
with her daughter, said Narriman
would return to Cairo within a
few days with the full approval
of Egypt’s government, which
bounced Farouk from his throne
last July. She said she did not
know what would become of the
couple’s son, baby Prince Ahmed
Fuad II, but “we assume he will
remain with the king (Farouk)
for the time being.”
The exiled Egyptian monarch
and the unidentified blonde spent
most of the night and^arly morn
ing in “La Boite Pigalle,” one of
Rome’s few night spots.
Commercial Fishermen to Get
Temporary Draft Deferments
WASHINGTON, UP) — Secretary
of the Interior McKay said yes
terday that commercial fishermen
and other skilled workers “essen
tial to the production of substan
tial quantities of fishery commo
dities” will be granted the same
temporary draft deferments now
given farm workers.
Nome Directory
ROTARY CLUB
OF NOME
Thursday Luncheon
Boyd Harwood, Pres.
George Bayer, Secy.
ALASKA CHAPTER NO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Dorothy Young
Worthy Matron
Rosa B. Hagen
Secretary
Meets the third Monday of each month.
HAGEN
JEWELER AND OPTICIAN
Court House Is Opposite Us
Phone Main 40
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
Boyd C. Harwood, W.M.
Karl F. Dewey, Sec.
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday each month
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets
EVERY TUESDAY NOON
Dewey Goodrich, President
POLAR CURIO SHOP
LESLIE A. STEVENS
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT
Offi<^: Wallace Apartment No. 2
Nome, Alaska
Phone Main 82 — P.O. Box 208