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Health and Medical Care Programs
Reached More Natives in First Year
Of Public Health Service in Alaska
By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON, WV-With the
benefit of larger appropriations,
health and medical care programs
reached an increasing number of
Alaska’s natives in the first year
of administration by the Public
Health Service CPHSi.
Department statistics show vir
tual elimination of the waiting
list for tubercular patients, in
creased hospital admissions, and a
larger staff to carry out the pro
grams.
Care of Alaska’s 35,000 Eskimos,
Indians and Aleuts was taken
over by the PHS from the Bureau,
of Indian Affairs July 1, 1955 and
operates in the territory thru the
Alaska Native Health Service and
in cooperation with the Alaska
Department of Health.
$4 Million More Spent
During its first year, PHS spent I
$10,700,000 in Alaska as compared
with $6,700,000 in the previous■
year by the Bureau of Indian Af- I
fairs.
An added $11,200,000 has been
earmarked for the Alaska service
this year from an over-all appro
priation of $38,775,000 for Indian
health. Included is $2,859,000 to
replace the antiquated 35-bed hos- j
pital at Kotzebue with a 50-bed
facility as soon as a way can be j
found to develop an adequate j
water supply.
Intensive TB Program
Tackling the tuberculosis prob
lem, the major health hazard of
Alaska’s natives, the PHS has
launched an intensive case find
ing and hospitalization program.
Of the 845 natives to be found
in the service’s eight hospitals on
an avreage day last year, 63 per
cent were tuberculous. Another
400 beds for TB patients are ob
tained by contract with various
community hospitals in Alaska
and with three institutions in
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Washington State.
The addition of nurses, techni
cians and native aides also has
enabled expansion of the chemo
therapy program for care of am
bulatory tuberculous patients and
their contacts from 10 villages
served in 1955 to more than 00
villages with about 10,000 natives.
More Hospital Admissions
PHS spokesmen use the word
“notable” in referring to the in
crease in hospital services during
its first year of operation in the
territory.
Admissions to Alaska Native
Service hospitals totalled 5,514 in
the year which ended last June
30—a 14 percent increase over
the previous year. Outpatient care
' and preventive services provided
by the hospital staffs went up
fwom 84,956 to 98,296. Births in
creased 25 percent from 464 to
578.
To handle this added load, PHS
built up the Alaska staff from the
1,016 employes it took over with
the program to 1,215.
Field Health Services
It also provided field health
services—in such matters as san
itation, control of communicable
diseases, and nursing—thru con
tract with the Alaska Department
of Health. Nineteen Alaska na
tives trained by sanitarian aides
now are working thruout Alaska
on a part-time basis teaching
methods of waste disposal and
construction of sanitary facilities.
In another move to provide
guidance for an improved pro
gram in Alaska and the states,
the surgeon general recently
named an advisory committee on
Indian health. Alaska’s represen
tative on this committee, named
for a four-year term, is Robert B.
Atwood, editor and publisher of
the Anchorage Daily Times.
U.S. Demands
Russia Pay for
Downed Neptune
WASHINGTON Ui—'The United
States today demanded payment
by Russia of $1,355,650 as damag
es for the destruction of a Navy
patrol plane, in September 1954,
the killing of an American air
man, and injuries to survivors.
A note presented to the Foreign
Office in Moscow by the U.S. Em
bassy asserted full Soviet respon
sibility for the destruction of the
twin-engine Navy Neptune “over
international waters of the Sea
of Japan."
The U.S. plane was shot down
by two Soviet fighters.
Russia claims it had violated
the Soviet frontier, and had fired
on the Red fighters when they
tried to warn it away.
The U.S. note denied every im
portant detail of the Soviet ver
sion of the incident, in line with
the position this country took
publicly at the time of the affair.
Charges included $939,183 for
loss of aircraft and $50,000 for
next of kin to the killed airman.
60 PHONE CALLS A DAY
TO HUSBAND AT WORK
IS TOO MUCH JUDGE RULES
LOS ANGELES. W>—The trou
ble, said Irvin Berzon, was that
his wife kept telephoning him at
work. i
Not once but sometimes HO
times a day, Berzon, 47, a real
estate broker, yesterday told Su
perior Judge Elmer D. Doyle.
Judge Doyle found Mrs. Flor
ence Berzon, 39, in contempt of a
restraining order issued pending
an annulment hearing. He gave
her a suspended five-day jail sen
tence. Said Mrs. Berzon:
“I only wanted to find out how
he was.”
Bob Bartlett Assails
Republicans For “Below
i The Belt Tactics”
CORDOVA, lift—Delegate Bob
Bartlett, altho safely re-elected
to a seventh term in Congress,
was in a battling mood today over
what he termed Republican “be
low the belt tactics.”
The delegate was here yester
day with Mrs. Bartlett for the
dedication of the Mt. Eccles
School. He defeated Republican
Byron Gillam in this week’s elec
tion.
He charged the Republicans
with “mud slinging, smear tac
tics” in the campaign.
“The Republican element in
charge, including the paid profes
sionals from the states, went too
far,” he asserted.
“We Democrats want and the
territory needs a properly func
tioning Republican Party. These
below the belt tactics, based on
innuendoes, character assassina
tion and plain falsehoods, should
be put into the woodshed per
manently.”
The delegate suggested Gov.
Heintzleman and other party
leaders “should take control and
drive these irresponsibles to the
outer spaces."
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