to send up there within less than *
24 hours 750,000 units of anti
toxin for the successful treat
ment of the disease.
The doctor speaking of the
matter at the Hotel St. Francis
said:
“Over so extensive and moun
tainous a country as Alaska,
with its long winters of snow and
ice, the airplane is indeed a gift
from the gods. Only a very few
years ago it would have taken a
dog team and mushers about a
month to have delivered the
medicine at that distance. Most
of the sufferers by that time
would undoubtedly have died."
This health officer has been to
the national capital on an un
usual mission. Heretofore, people
declared insane in Alaska have
been taken at the expense of
Uncle Sam to a hospital in Port
land, Oregon, for treatment.
Uncle Sam now wishes to avoid
that, expense and put a hospital
in that territory.
Many of those declared insane
are among the hundreds of fish
ermen brought up there annually
by the salmon packing com
panies. Before they go up there
they are presumed to have had a
thorough medical examination
by government health officers.
On the initiation of Ernest
Walker Sawyer, personal repre
sentative in Alaska of Dr. Ray
Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the
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