The Nenana daily news., 1918-11-14
HEALTH OFFICER
 COMES ID TOWN
 FOR CONFERENCE

i Dr. J. A. Sutherland, of Fair banks, who is assistant commissioner of health for the Fourth Judicial division under Governor Riggs, who is commissioner of health for the territory, arrived in town last night from Fairbanks to confer with the local Board of Health and MT. F. D. Browne, regarding the measures adopted for the prevention of the introduction of the influenza into the Panama valley, more especially in the towns of Fairbanks and Ne nana
 A conference was held at the office of the townsite manager last night; those present besides Dr. Sutherland being MT. F. D. Browne, Mrs. Sweeney, Dr. David More, James Hagan and Townsite Manager Joseph.
 Dr. Sutherland said that the people of Fairbanks have the inn pression that Nenanaites think that the territorial health officers have done nothing in the way of taking quarantine measures, this impression being strengthened by the establish ment in Nenana of quarantine against Fairbanks. He said that the Territorial Board of Health have es- tablished seven quarantine stations. The quarantine station at Me Grath, in the kuskokwim country, is in charge of Dr. Green and shuts in that section against the Seward Peninsula and Cooks Inlet country; there are also stations at Flat, in the Iditarod country; Nulato, Ruby, Eagle and Cordova. Dr. Randall, who is in charge of the station at Nulato, is also vested with the powers of deputy marshal and he has been directed to take strong quarantine measures. He has ac- cordingly closed all mail routes. The drivers of the mail teams are com pelled to wear masks and mail is exchanged out on the trail.
 On the Fairbanks-Valdez trail
 every telegraph operator from Pax sons to Fairbanks has been made a quarantine officer and has orders to report to Dr. Sutherland the movements of travellers bound for
 the Interior, their names and places
 of destination.
 A quarantine station has been es- tablished at the Piledriver roadhouse about 28 miles from Fairbanks,
 which is so arranged that those who have already put in part of the quarantine period will not come in
 contact with new arrivals. All per
 sons coming in over the trail are
 placed in quarantine at the Pile driver roadhouse for a period of ten days.
 The mails for the Interior are taken off the stage at the Piledriver roadhouse and are transferred to fumigateI sacks which are sent out for this purpose from Fairbanks.
 On rec4ipt of the mails 1t Fair banks, they gre sgain fu;r.gatcd hy being subie ted to the fumes of formaldehyde for twelve hours. One of the big vaaI:s 6: the defunct
 Washington. Alaska hank being used
 for the fum;gati;n.
 l Dr. Sutherland thought that the tquarantine measures adC2t-d ty the
 territory wer" .:: stringent, ard wished to know of the arrangement;
 made by the local '>on''l of Heath
 for preventing the introduction of
 the disease A copy of yesterdays
 issue oi the Nenana News, contain
 ing the rules and regulations regard
 ing the Neaana quarantine was
 handed to the docl,- It also gave a synopsis of the quarantine meas
 ures to be pu: in force immediately. Mir. Browne stated that the build
 ings which were to serve as quar- antine stations on the Nenana-Fair-
 banks line have been fixed up com
 fortably and that the necessary sup niles and tho mon xIho xrill ha in