The Wrangell sentinel., 1935-10-18
ERADICATION OF ESKIMOS
 WITHIN 50 YEARS SEEN

WITHIN 0U 1EAho oEEH
 Tuberculosis, which causes about 50 per cent of the total amount O. deaths among the Eskimos of Alas ka, is the disease largely respon sible for the fact that the Eskimo's life span is only 24 years, accord ing to Dr. Victor E. Levine, noted physician of the Gre ghton uniyer- sity school ot medicine h Omaha, Nebraska, told the ketchikan Chronicle.
 Dr. Levine was in Ketehikan aboard the steamer Derblay yester- day enroute to Seattle. He has just completed his third trip to the Are tic for the purpose of making medi- cal studies of the Eskimo, the re- suits Of which will be made into book.
 He emphatieally urged that more physicians be provided in the Arc tic to watch over the health of the Eskimos if their numbers are not to be wiped out in little more than a generation.
 At the same time, Dr. Levine said that the white man fares re- markably well in the Arctic today his life span being 5S, as in the United States as a whole. However, he found evidence that in the Are tic the white mans diet closely borders on the production of latent scurvy. From the standpoint of health, he said, there is no limit to the number of people Alaska may hold.
 Dr. Levine is a famous biochem- ist and nutritionist. He holds a bachelors degree from the College of the City of New York, a master of arts and doctor of philosophy degree from Columbia university, and a degree Of doctor of medicine from Creighton. He also studied at the University of Toronto and at Johns Hopkins. Before going to Creighton he taught at both Colum- bia and Fordham.
 He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement oi Science, the American Medical as- sOciation, the American Geograph- ical society, the Academy of Sci ences, and the Royal Society oI Arts and Sciences. He also belongs to many other medical and .scien- tific organizations.
 This year Dr. Levine made ob- servations on Eskimos from St. Michael to Point Barrow. He visit ed Seyoonga and Gambell on St. Lawrence island, Little Diomede- an island lying near the Siberian coast and near Boring strait.
 He also visited many villages along the Boring sea and Arctic ocean coasts; including St. Michael, Nome, Teller, Cape Prince of Wales, Shmaref, Deering, Keewalik, Kot- zebue, KiYaltna, Point Hope, Point Lay, Wainwright and Point Bar row. He arrived in Point Barrow the day before the tragic deaths of Wiley Post and Will Rogers.
 pr. Levine found the most com mon ailments among Eskimos to be tuberculosis, arthritis, chronic ton oA44NASt SoStl EuIOuIC COIL stipation, and such diseases of the eye as catarrhal conjunctivitis and keYatis. Cancer, high blood pres sure, arteriosclerosis, and heart disease were rare, due to the fact that the Eskimo does not live long enough to get such diseases. Dis eases of the thyroid were rare be. cause, living near the sea, the Els kimo diet has ample iodine.
 Campaign Is Urged
 Tuberculosis is most prevalent, he said.
 If the government does not step in and initiate an active campaign against the Arctic plague there will be no more Eskimos within a period of 50 years,' said pr. Levine. What are sorely needed are sani- tariums and clinics for tuberculos- is. Active cases should be isolated and early cases should receive in- tensiye treatment. It is a crying shame for the most humane of all governments to permit it's wards,