Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-02-24
A REMARKABLE
MORTALITY RECORD
Only Seventeen Deaths Have Occurred in
Eleven Years at the United States Indian
School in Santa fe.
The MORAL STANDING OF THE
SCHOOL is URASSAILABLE

The New Mexican has compiled list
of the deaths which have occurred at
the United States Indian school at Santa
Fe since its establishment. The school
has at present 800 pupils. In the II
years of its existence there have been
only II deaths at the school, three OF
which have been from primary tuber-
culosis, three from tuberculosis follow
ing and resulting from an attack of the
measles, and five from pneumonia. Two
we're accidental deaths, one was caused
by heart failure, one by maaria fever
and one by chills and convulsion, while
In one ase it was not possible to deter
mine the cause of death. The ages OF
those who died ranged from 6 to 90
years This certainly speaks well for
the sanitary cond tions and management
of the Santa Fe school and the salubrity
of its location. 1t takes the school out
of the category of those referred to in
congress as being breeding places for
consumption and Of having high NOR
talty rate. The fact is that the health
of the children attending the Santa Fe
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would certainly be at their homes aud
that the death rate among them is but a
small per cent of what it would be II
those children attended reservation
schools.
AS to the charge made in congress
that many Indian schools. on account of
the prom iscuous mingljng of the sexes,
are the cause of immortality, it too does
not apply to the Santa Fe school. Under
the administration Of superintendent c.
j. Crandall, now in its third term, not
single scandal has occurred nor has any
investigation been called for upon the
mere suspicion of a scandal. The moral
record was similar under Superintendent
A. H. Viets, the predecessor of Superin-
tendent Crandall.
The United States Indian schools at
Santa Fe and Albuquerque are veritable
b aeon lights for the Indians of the west
and safeguards as to health and to i'm
not the strong points OF the Indians in
their native haunts.
APPROPRIATIONS.
New Mexico and Arizona get but a
small share of the almost 80, ,000,0 900 car
ried by the Indian appropriation bill
the. large number of Indi-
ans in the two territories, the appropri-
ations arr ridiculously small. For New
Mexico the special appr priations are
as follows: Indian agent at the Navajo
agency, 81, 800; nothing for agents either
at the Jcarilla Apache or the Mescalero
Apache agencies; support of the Apache
and other Indians in Arizona and New
Mexico who have been or may be col
lected on reservations in the two terri
tories. S225.000; for general in dental
pyp nses of the IndiaE service In New
Mexico, includ ng travelling expenses of
agents, 81 80 O.; for pay of one special at
torney for the Pueblo Indians of New
Mexico, 81, 500; and for necessary trav' J.
ing and incidental expenses OF one spe-
,ial attorney for the Pueblo Indians of
New Mexico, $500; for support and edu-
cation OF 300 Indians at Albuquerque,
$50, 100; for pay OF superintendent of
said school, roo; for erection of laun-
Try, $4,000; general repairs and i'm
orovements, 800; for support and ed
lcation of 300 Indian pupils at the In
1ian school at Santa e. $50,100; for pay |
of superintendent at said school, $l,TO0;
Tor water supply, $500; for general re-
pairs and improvements, $4,000. The
cost of carrying on the reservation and
Pueblo schools will be borne by gen.
eral appropriation included in the bill.
Taken all in all, New Mexico and Ari-
iona Indians receive but very small
proportional share of the bounty of Un-
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