Show Alaska Healthiest Of All War Zones Lacks k n dy Lice r Tetanus nd Iid Disease C Carriers Carrier WITH THE UNIT UNITED D STATES ARMY IN THE An army ermy doctor who has seen service servi in China and the Philippines observed obServed ob- ob served that the Alaskan war zone tone des despite ite its drab weather is P pet per r- r haps hags the healthiest front in the world If The d doctor doctors Dw M. M Young of Orlando Fla explained explain d th that t the tho sick rate among the troops ts is less than 1 I per cent HU Ria assistant Capt Edward K It Mills of Dallas Texas added that th the sickness rate tate in lit the tho United States excluding epidemics is double double double dou dou- ble Alaska t r Medical i officers cite a- a a number of number of reasons why this land of hard winter sil biow-sil drenching g thins rains and per all-per- v di g fogs is healthful v The m most st important is that there here are no body lice Uce hence no typhus There are no sources for the spreadIng spreading spreading spread spread- ing of sexual diseases disease in the Aleutians Aleu Aleu- I. I Tetanus is almost unknown in Alaska Th The soil has not been c contaminated contaminated con con- n. n with the organism as yet In Europe or Asia medical men say lay any cut Invites lockjaw There are ore no bedbugs There is no malaria Soldiers transferred to Alaska from the malarial swamps of the Solomons report themselves fit and healthy in this sharp cli cli- mate However there c carrying mosquitoes s here according to MaJ Oscar P P. P Moult Moffit Jr of High HighPoint HighPoint Point N. N C. C Despite the stories of blizzards and zero below-zero weather r during the th past winter which was Yas a bad one few soldiers got so much as a frost frost fron bite Their wool clothing lothing protection Even the navy men pr pr fer army issue and wear it |