Northwest History. Alaska. Epidemics & Contagious Diseases.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1936
• Subjects: fishermen; Juneau; Alaska; typhoid stricken area; Bristol bay; epidemic; W. W. Council; Dillingham; Nushagak; Snag Point; Kanankanak; airplane; quarantine; Anchorage; J. H. Romig; Joseph Sheldon; laboratory technician; vaccine; Nushagak bay area; Kuskokwim river; Eskimo village; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Pacific; Snag; Yukon; eskimo*; Kuskokwim
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/90744

Fishermen Are Forbidden To Leave Typhoid-Stricken Alaskan Villages. Fishermen Are Forbidderi to Leave Typhoid-Stricken Alaskan Villages Juneau, Alaska, July 26.—(/P)—Typhoid stricken areas in the Bristol bay region lay under strict quarantine today with all persons prohibited from leaving until danger of spreading the epidemic had passed. Dr. W. W. Council, territorial health officer, wirelessed other Alaska cities that no fishermen from the affected salmon cannery hamlets of Dillingham, Nushagak, Snag Point or Kanakanak would be allowed to take airplane or boat. Examine Fishermen He instructed health officers at Anchorage and other towns to examine fishermen who left before the quarantine was established. A few fishermen flew out before the quarantine took place. At Anchorage, the advance guard of the fishermen already had come with the end of the fishing season Thursday. Dr. J. H. Romig, health officer, sought to round up these for examination. The territorial office was without word from Pilot Joseph Sheldon who took off Friday on a 750-mile flight with a doctor, laboratory technician, a nurse and vaccine. Hospitals Filled A wireless from Kanakanak said 15 cases had been placed in a hospital there. Fourteen previously were reported from Dillingham and the little hospital at Nushagak, largest village, was crowded. Only the more serious cases went to the hospitals. While the epidemic appeared to center in the Nushagak bay area, between the mouths of the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers, no information was available from Eskimo villages and other tiny settlements.