1930s: Yukon River boats provide health services
M/V (Motor Vessel) Yukon brings physicians to the lower Yukon. The M/S Hygiene and M/V Health provide preventive care services and education.
The U.S. Bureau of Education, the federal agency responsible for providing health care services to Native peoples, staffs an on-board clinic, bringing doctors and nurses by riverboat to Alaska Native villages and summer fishing camps along the Yukon River.
- Theme
- Federal-Tribal Relations
- Region
- Arctic
Alaska Native people could receive medical care on board several medical vessels that served the Alaska coastline as far north as Point Hope. Three men and four children board the Hygiene, 1939–1959.
Courtesy Alaska State Library, Alaska Department of Health & Social Services Photograph Collection
Alaska Native people could receive medical care on board several medical vessels that served the Alaska coastline as far north as Point Hope. Complete dental unit aboard the Health, ca. 1939 to 1959.
Courtesy Alaska State Library, Alaska Department of Health & Social Services Photograph Collection
Alaska Native people could receive medical care on board several medical vessels that served the Alaska coastline as far north as Point Hope. A patient on board the Hygiene has her blood pressure checked, ca. 1939–1959.
Courtesy Alaska State Library, Alaska Department of Health & Social Services Photograph Collection
U.S. Bureau of Education riverboat medical clinic, Martha Angeline, with nurse Miss Major, Tanana, Alaska, 1928
Courtesy Alaska State Library, George A. Parks Photograph Collection
U.S. Bureau of Education riverboat medical clinic, Alaska, 1920s
Courtesy National Archives and Records Administration