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Title: Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: United States. Bureau of Fisheries
Subjects: Fisheries Fish culture
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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doctors advice is entirelyignored. The invalid is kissed by most of the community and, if death follows, the samekissing is resorted to with the corpse. All these practices have religious significance tothe natives, but they are unhygienic and render futile the best efforts of a physicianbent on preventive measures. Improvement in these matters could be made by main-taining in each village a small hospital and inculcating through it some idea of cleanliving. A start in this direction has been made on St. Paul, where during the pastseason a small hospital building has been fitted up. The need for a hospital on St. Paulwas so great that, although no appropriation was available, a fairly serviceable oldbuilding was moved and remodeled in 1914 and furnished as well as could be done byutilizing scattered material collected from various sources on the island. The physicianin charge, to effect much, should have a semimilitary control over the community. ButL. U. S. B. F., 1914. Plate X\III.
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FUR SEALS AND OTHER LIFE, PRIBILOF ISLANDS, 1914. 145 MORALS. The natives give the impression of an honest, docile body of people, devoid of thesmall vices of the poorer parts of American towns, but addicted to a certain amount ofdrunkenness and to sexual looseness. Though not supposed to have access to alcoholic drink, they brew for themselves,from the sugar and other sweets supplied them, an alcoholic beverage known as quass,which is the occasion of most of their drunkenness. From the reports of those whiteswho have wintered on the islands, it appears that quass debauches are of not infrequentoccurrence. This practice could be suppressed only through the action of the nativesthemselves, and even its partial control presents many difficulties. Sexual looseness is seen in the considerable number of illegitimate births and in theprevalence of venereal diseases. So far as the natives are concerned, these conditions aredue not so much to viciousness as to purely animal habits. In some re

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