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Show xxxiv FIFTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF I SANITARY. I A table is presented on page 446 which shows in detail the number of patients and the various forms of disease treated at the several agen-cies and schools where physicians are located. The followiug is a resume of that table : TABLEl5 .-S7hotl:iltg 01.88e8 of dbiaeases treated among India~tsa nd nun~l e ro j d eaths thaa-from during thefiscal yew ended June 30, 18118. ~~~ ~ Class uf diseases. oNf ncmasbese.r oNf ndmestbhesr. . . . . . . . . . ~ - - Zymotic diaeasea: M~smabic.. .................................................................. 11,333 216 Enthetic. .................................................................... 2, 046 80 Dietic ...................................................................... 40 5 Total ...................................................................... 19,419 321 ------ C-o nstitntiond diseases : Diathetio .................................................................... 4 760 32 Tnberoal~r.. ................................................................ -2-.406- - 623 Total ...................................................................... -1,166 -855 -- Psrasitio diseases.. ............................................................. .- ......... --- LooSl d i s e ~:~ s I - - Of the 7~81~0"883.8tem.. ................................................... .' Of the eye ................................................................... : Of the ear ................................................................... ! Of the organs of oirculhWon ................................................. Of the respirstorgorgans ................................................... i of the digestive organs ...................................................... 1 of the I arinarg and genitd organa. ....................................... ...' Of the bones md iointa.. .................................................... 1 of the intsgumentsry @).atem.... ......................................... ...I 3,885 3 ---- Total ................................................................. 33,685 397 ---- Violent diseases and deaths ............................ '.. ........................ 1,971 69 Total ...................................................................... 67,433 1,&2 The number of deaths as compared with the nnmber of cases treated was about the same as last year. For the first time the report presents not only the number of deaths in the aggregate, but also the number resulting from each disease, so far as a, limited classification permits. A large number of deaths occurs every year from the waut of facili-ties at cwmmaud of the physician to enforce proper nursing and regu-lar and coutlnued administration of medicine. Of hygienic measures and nursing of the sick the Indian knows little or nothing, and the an-fortunate member of the raee who is stricken down with either acute or ohronic disease, or by some severe casualty, can therefore hope for but little aid from his friends. The physician goes from 1 to 20 miles from the agency headquarters, and in nearly every instanoe finds his patient in an overcrowed tepee, |
