 The "American Journal of Psychiatry" later acknowledged that the APRF had played a lead role in defeating the bill.At the end of 1955 the APRF launched a campaign against the Alaska Mental Health Bill (HR 6376), a proposed Act of Congress put forward to remedy the long-standing deficiencies in mental health care in the then Alaska Territory.The legislation provided for the transfer of a million acres (4,000 km2) of Federal land in Alaska to the local authorities to fund the cost of providing a modern mental health service in the territory.