Northwest History. Alaska. Epidemics & Contagious Diseases.

Tear Down Buildings To Get Coffin Wood. TEAR DOWN BUILDINGS TO GET COFFIN WOOD POINT BARROW, Alaska, May 6. (AP)—Healthy Eskimos of this outpost of the far north tore down buildings today to make coffins for victims of an influenza epidemic, while the lone medical missionary took six Eskimos to &quo...

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Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1935
Subjects:
coffin wood
Point Barrow
influenza epidemic
Eskimos
the harbor
Nome
shortage of food
medical missionary
Northwest
Pacific > History > 20th century
Alaska
Lone
Pacific
Barrow
eskimo*
Online Access:http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/90719
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Summary:Tear Down Buildings To Get Coffin Wood. TEAR DOWN BUILDINGS TO GET COFFIN WOOD POINT BARROW, Alaska, May 6. (AP)—Healthy Eskimos of this outpost of the far north tore down buildings today to make coffins for victims of an influenza epidemic, while the lone medical missionary took six Eskimos to "The White Man's Heaven," as the natives call his hospital. The ice pack locked the harbor. Influenza struck down 300, killed 11, with more expected to die today. An airplane which came north from Nome brought no serum. There was a shortage of food.

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