INSANE CASES SHOW DECREASE
Report to Governor Says Less In
sane Cases Due to Cannery Care
The following facts will indicate
how much the cannery men could
improve Alaska conditions if they
would only try. It also proves that
it- is possible for them to get men
,to come to Alaska for them with
out hiring the crazy ones.
All of this makes for a better
understanding between the can
nery men and Alaskans.
During the past two years there
has been a decrease of approxi
mately 37 per cent in the number
of insane persons sent from Al
aska, to the sanitarium at Morn
ingside, Portland, Oregon, where
such unfortunates are cared for,
according to official statistics pre
pared at the governor’s office in
Juneau.
In the fiscal year ending June
30, 1926, there were 55 commit
ments to the sanitarium from Al
aska. During the past fiscal year
which ended June 30 last, there
were 34. Virtually all of the de
crease was accounted for in the
First and Third Divisions, it was
said.
Health inspections made by
United States public health au
thorities in the states, and great
er care taken by salmon packers
in the caliber of labor employed
by them in the south, are believed
by Governor George A. Parks to
be the main factors in the im
provement shown.
During the past two years, un
der agreement with the Territorial
health department, physicians of
the public health service have
made physical examinations of
cannery employes hired in the
states for work in Alaska during
the salmon packing season. This
has not only weeded out the phys
ically defective and diseased but
it has, it is said, resulted in the
employment bureaus of the com
panies securing a higher average
class of workmen.
The fact that the decrease in
the total number of insane pa
tients was entirely in the First and
Third Divisions, where the fishing
industry is centerea, it is pointed
out. supports the theory advanced
for the improved showing.
On A Slow Train
-o
A Tooeka minister, traveling on
one of the Santa Fe’s slow trains,
was reading his Bible.
“Find anything in that book
rbout the Santa Fe?” asked the
conductor, as he reached for the
minister’s ticket.
“Yes,” said the minister, “in the
very first chapter it says that ‘The
Lord made every creeping thing’.”
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