Return to:   "The Floating Clinics: M/V Health and M/S Hygiene - In post-World War II Alaska, the battle against tuberculosis was the territory's major health issue, especially among Alaska Natives." Nurse Miss Major was photographed at Tanana Department of Health's Mobile Health Unit truck Aboard the M/S Hygiene in the late 1940s The M/V Health is docked at Dutch Harbor and Unalaska Dr. Hazel Blair A poster from the territory's Department of Health The Alaska Department of Health's M/S Hygiene Women and children line up Clinic patients board the M/S Hygiene A starboard view of the M/V Health in Juneau The floating clinics of the late 1940s
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