Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-05-03 | Page 5 | Point Barrow Flu Scourge is Broken

POINT BARROW FLU SCOURGE IS BROKEN POINT BARROW Alaska May 3 tf Fighting P Fighting a heroic battle in th the small quarters of ot the Presbyterian mission hospital here Dr Henry W W. Griest expressed the belief beliet today Point Barrow had seen the worst o oan of an influenza epidemic which claimed eight lives in the last ten days Spreading with great rapidity and marked with extraordinarily high temperatures since the outbreak was wa first diagnosed on April 20 the cp epidemic epI epi- demic caused at least cases of ill ness Thirty cases developed before it it was discovered Dr Griest the only white while doctor docto doctorin in in this most northerly settlement o of the United States ls two graduate gradual nurses and native helper were sti still weary with little sleep from their almost incessant t fight