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1910: Territorial hospital just for Alaska Natives opens

In Juneau, the Territory of Alaska's Bureau of Education opens the first hospital specifically for Alaska Natives. Before 1910, some church hospitals had admitted Alaska Native patients. That year, the Sisters of Providence also purchase St. Joseph’s Hospital in Fairbanks and admit Alaska Natives.

Theme
Medicine Ways
Region
Northwest Coast, Subarctic

Early twentieth-century Bureau of Indian Affairs school (on left) and U.S. Public Health Service hospital in Juneau, Alaska.

Courtesy Alaska State Library, Juneau-Schools-12, Alaska State Library Photograph Collection