Northwest History. Alaska. Epidemics & Contagious Diseases.
"Flu" Spreads From Barrow To Villages: Ships Unable To Reach Area Till Summer; More Doctors And Nurses Are Needed. 'Flu' Spreads From Barrow To Villages: Ships Unable to Reach Area Till Summer; More Doctors and Nurses Are Needed As a possible complication to the influenza epidemi...
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ftwashstatelib:oai:content.libraries.wsu.edu:clipping/90721 2023-05-15T15:39:30+02:00 Northwest History. Alaska. Epidemics & Contagious Diseases. Seattle Post-Intelligencer 1935-05-09 "Flu" Spreads From Barrow To Villages: Ships Unable To Reach Area Till Summer; More Doctors And Nurses Are Needed. 1935-05-09 http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/90721 English eng nwh-sh-8-6-41 http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/90721 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0 Copyright not evaluated. Contact original newspaper publisher for copyright information. Northwest History. Alaska. Box 8 flu Point Barrow ice breaks food supply Wainwright Alaska-Washington Military Cables radio Ernest P. STowell dog team Henry W. Greist medical missionary Nome Eskimos Northwest Pacific -- History -- 20th century Alaska Text Clippings 1935 ftwashstatelib 2021-07-26T19:18:18Z "Flu" Spreads From Barrow To Villages: Ships Unable To Reach Area Till Summer; More Doctors And Nurses Are Needed. 'Flu' Spreads From Barrow To Villages: Ships Unable to Reach Area Till Summer; More Doctors and Nurses Are Needed As a possible complication to the influenza epidemic sweeping Point Barrow, it was learned yesterday that the food supply is dwindling and fuel stock low, with no ships able to get in till the ice breaks. Food and fuel ma/ have to be sent in by dog train or plane. The influenza epidemic was sweeping through the native villages east of Point Barrow, bringing the death toll to fourteen persons since its outbreak. In the villages east of Point Barrow, bringing the death toll to fourteen persons since its outbreak. In the village of Wainwright alone there were two hundred new cases reported, the disease having touched nearly every inhabitant, the Alaska-Washington Military Cables learned by radio. Ernest P. Stowell, government teacher at Wainwright, sent word of the community's plight and plea for medical aid by dog team from Point Barrow. MORE HELP NEEDED Henry W. Greist, medical nary connected with the Presbyterian mission hospital at Point Barrow, dispatched medicine and instructions for the treatment of ill persons and requested Nome by radio to send a nurse and doctor for the little settlement. Wainwright is a hundred miles from Point Barrow. Previously a plane, carrying a doctor, a nurse and vaccine and other medical supplies toward Point Barrow had turned back on radio advice that the additional help and supplies were not immediately needed. Point Barrow had not heard from Wainwright at that time. In the sheds in back of the Point Barrow mission lie Point Barrow's dead, one white man and ten Eskimos, frozen. The temperature was 2 degrees below zero yesterday. The ground is too deeply frozen for grave digging. Text Barrow eskimo* Nome Point Barrow Alaska Washington State University: WSU Libraries Digital Collections Pacific |
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"Flu" Spreads From Barrow To Villages: Ships Unable To Reach Area Till Summer; More Doctors And Nurses Are Needed. 'Flu' Spreads From Barrow To Villages: Ships Unable to Reach Area Till Summer; More Doctors and Nurses Are Needed As a possible complication to the influenza epidemic sweeping Point Barrow, it was learned yesterday that the food supply is dwindling and fuel stock low, with no ships able to get in till the ice breaks. Food and fuel ma/ have to be sent in by dog train or plane. The influenza epidemic was sweeping through the native villages east of Point Barrow, bringing the death toll to fourteen persons since its outbreak. In the villages east of Point Barrow, bringing the death toll to fourteen persons since its outbreak. In the village of Wainwright alone there were two hundred new cases reported, the disease having touched nearly every inhabitant, the Alaska-Washington Military Cables learned by radio. Ernest P. Stowell, government teacher at Wainwright, sent word of the community's plight and plea for medical aid by dog team from Point Barrow. MORE HELP NEEDED Henry W. Greist, medical nary connected with the Presbyterian mission hospital at Point Barrow, dispatched medicine and instructions for the treatment of ill persons and requested Nome by radio to send a nurse and doctor for the little settlement. Wainwright is a hundred miles from Point Barrow. Previously a plane, carrying a doctor, a nurse and vaccine and other medical supplies toward Point Barrow had turned back on radio advice that the additional help and supplies were not immediately needed. Point Barrow had not heard from Wainwright at that time. In the sheds in back of the Point Barrow mission lie Point Barrow's dead, one white man and ten Eskimos, frozen. The temperature was 2 degrees below zero yesterday. The ground is too deeply frozen for grave digging. |
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