1953: Tuberculosis hospital established in Anchorage
In Anchorage, the Alaska Native Service, part of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, opens a 400-bed hospital with a tuberculosis wing. In the early 1950s, the statewide death rate for Alaska Natives is 653 per 100,000 cases.
- Theme
- Federal-Tribal Relations
- Region
- Subarctic
Anchorage Hospital construction
Courtesy Indian Health Service/U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
To help combat the high rate of tuberculosis in Alaska, the Indian Health Service built a new hospital in Anchorage which included a tuberculosis wing.
Courtesy Indian Health Service/U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
To help combat the high rate of tuberculosis in Alaska, the Indian Health Service built a new hospital in Anchorage which included a tuberculosis wing.
Courtesy Indian Health Service/U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Patients inside hospital ward. To help combat the high rate of tuberculosis in Alaska, the Indian Health Service built a new hospital in Anchorage which included a tuberculosis wing.
Courtesy Indian Health Service/U.S. Department of Health and Human Services