Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-04-15
INDIANS CLAIMED
By TWO Diseases
.TRACHOMA AND TUBERCULOSIS
REDS WORST ENEMIES.
HAND WAR ON MALADIES
To Incrcnse vitality Aim Of Physi-
clans and Nurses Working on the
Reservation.


"S'''''h VIZ Np'" ''''''''" "'e
results are being obtained In the cam
paign tho indian Bureau IL waging to |
stap,n nm tho ssie of vybtsl,ey ia the
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'oh"lll"n OF lhe gal'ohs Warus'
For several years the Indian office
has maintained Arse medical force, !
iooit,d pt yar,oua Indian schools and
r.s,r,ntinus ,brnpghout the twenty
Fix states whore Indians i've This
force cousisls Of one hundred ana
cny-,lcht nbvsiciang and lll nurses
.or field mntrous. These are main.
tanned sixty hospitals ana sanitorl-
.ums with a total capaolty Of lao
patients I'm the last wear medical
,uppllos alone haye cost the govern
mont 4t.. 0o0. and the total cost OF
,his health vor, was ygGO. 600.
.Tho Indian service IN It's health
work" SAID Indian Commissioner
I Valentine today "ls not aiming mere.
N To more aoffectIv,Iy care for and
+ IL
working ra,lrr 10 increase the vital
IuN of the Indian race. and to estnb-
! Ish for tsn new standard Of phys
cnl we'll being The rriucipal fca-
/ ulrpg OF tho war. as Il ia now organ
. lacd. arc. First am Intensive attack
|upou The tvl discusses that most seri-
ul.Iy monaco tho health of the In
/ IGnus--trachuma ard tuberculosis;
soonnd ureycntlye work ON large
erulr bv mrpus of popular education
InIopp hr,ltb limos and mora effective
sanitary insp,otion. third increased
..unptIGn in tbe nbvsicol welfare Of
tbe cbUdrcu IN tho schooIs so that
|,he pbysicoI stamin, of the coming
grurritIon may be coueeryed and in
,r.osod D.,
s,st,r,,tir ,rforts oro hoin,, made
Ito educoto tla Indians I'm the scbooIs
and an tho r.s.ryotions es IN the hest
.mo,bods or treating and nreventing
me sprood of tuherrulosls trach A,o.
lrrd ntb,r ior,,tio,,s ana contapious
S,sc,s.s MAMMAL an t,berc,,Ioels
10 cous, rr,voutior ana treatment
hns bsen nuhlisb,d nv tho medical
,fr,,ors ,nd dist,ib,,ted throughout
the service scr,os ~ uustrated
..rcturos for trav.lin, bealth axbihit
Ira belnr preporod. A speclal physi-
ci,n and nhntorrorber ora In tho
.ri,ld olto,,t,g ni,otosranhs from
witch thcsa storeontican sl,des and
movin, pict,ros vill bo made This
axbihit cpn bo sant IN tha different
schools and rsservarons one of the
most important results Of this edu-
'catlonal work viii be that II will in
struet the employos nj the schools
and agencies of tbo Indian service us
to the methods of preventing disease,
ana in this wov unito tbe entire ser
VIC. I'm tbe bealth cgmnalpn.
Increased attention is heIng rivon
Inv the medical officers md official
Of tho service IN sanitary inspection.
II ,s MANNED wherever nossihle TO
bnc bops.-to-h house ,,snectior NV
ub,si,i,n on tho many. reservotionq.
mis- vil mako Il uosglhlo NOT only
ia accurately I,arn the extent of dis
,,s, ord rrov,do for pronor treat-
r,o,t but a ,yu also rote u rossihls
e,r lnstructi,ns T., ba oIvep tho 1ndi.
,rs ms IN how tbov NAV imnrove the
/. sanitary conditions cf their homes
md tbor.h, nrovo,t disooso IN the
r,t,ro ,rho p,roou ~ Animal In.
, dustrv of t5e donortm,nt of arricul.
! mre Is now making an investigation
,r nh ,hc dairy hcrds ON thc roscryo.
ilors IN discover ~ amy ~ tho COW,
,r, tph.r,rlpr Tbc sopit,rv inspec.
u ti,r Of tbe min, su,rlv so far n,
' HANDLING n ir concerned ia also bo,n,
tp,,stlrotcd
T,c medical cpne,,lsor Ie bavin,
.n, scb,nls In uc servico systcpot
,,aauy lpspccted with spccial attention
An ,,pulatiop dleirr,cti,p md uer
ropal b,rlonc An nupils applyip,
for admission to no boordln, scboo
.ro gi,,p IA thorn,irh physirol eNomi
walton If tho child ls found to H.
u affected with any disease that woul,
probol,lv loo mad, yorse ly ottend.7l
school. ar that voull endappor IN,
health Of othor pupiIs. no is moi
admitted 7nrec of the reservation
Y. whore tho qreatcr number Of da,
'o schools nrc located. namely. Cheyenn
s- Bt.,. l,1,, pt1,, ,,,,a B,.,t,,A h,,.