Influenza in Alaska and Porto Rico: Hearings Before Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations in Charge of Relief in Alaska and Porto Rico, ... Congress, Third Session (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Influenza in Alaska and Porto Rico: Hearings Before Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations in Charge of Relief in Alaska and Porto Rico, Sixty-Fifth Congress, Third Session

Mr. Riggs. Thirty per cent of a population of 130 natives; that 11 ould be practically about 40. It attacks the natives more violently than the white persons; they simply have no resistant power; and the epidemic Is not over.

Mr. Sisson. If we should give you this money, would you be able to get that money into Alaska, or the supplies into Alaska, earlier than within 60 days?

Mr. Riggs. I have done it; I have taken these steps, trusting that Congress would relieve me of the responsibility that I have taken. I simply did it to protect what lives I could and to protect other lives by controlling travel among the Indians and the whites.

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