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Show 8UMMER SCHOOLS. 465 be allowed to mingle with other inmatee of the sohool. If the room adjoins other occupied rooms or hallways, a sheet wet with bichloride solntion should be hung before the door. TEE ~WBTANCOEF GOODS ANITATION TO TEE INDIAN. [Dr. EDGARB azss, Warm Swings Agency, h'sg.1 In them days we hear a peat deal abont germs, bacteria. and mimcwrganiema. It is now an established fact that many diseases arecansed by s low order of life, both plant and nnimal. The contagions character of tuhorculosia was anspecred a8 long ago as the time of the e;dy Clreek physirisns, bnt it in only within recent years th.tt definite knowled50 has heen olnrnined. The fact that the Indian 1s eapocially predisposed to tubercular infwrion hduerather to his bubitsof life than toanr rac~aldistiuccion. Poor food, exposure, and careless habits in handling tnbercnlir sputum ancount for the higher rate of mortality among them. The whole future of the Indian as a factor in civilization depends largely upon the outcome of the battle between himself and the tubercle bacillns. In his talks to the pupils the physician must impress upon them the dangerous character of tubercular sputum; that it is a poiaon; that it retains its vitality for a long time. and that when in the form of dried dust in the air and inhaled it gives rise to tuberculosis. The teacher should talk to them on the same subject, not once, but repeatedly. The missionary preacher should preach it as a part of the modern gospel. The criminal tendency to overcrowd sohools with pnpils, many of whom are tnbrculons, must be restrained by the physician. CAUSES AND PREVENTIOOF NTSW ERCULOSIASD IONG INDIANS. [Dr. F m x 8. Maa~ni. Colorado River Agency, Arie.1 The Mohaves are by birth and mode of living,very susceptible W this disease. They have a very amall chest development, and m thelr lungs the germs find an invirin.a. habltat. Durine the winter months whole familice. some of whonr mav ~ 6 v e consnmprion. alee 'in small sin lc-roomedmnd h o r n ; with no ventilatioh otbor than a fireplace. $hey are mcyean in tho~r habite ot coolong, eanng, and d~inkinc. Dnrinr the winrer thnv never hathe. while in the nmmer thrv bathe ~~ - .-., -. .- too mu%. remaizne in Colorado River n e a r l~a l ld ay. They are not regular with tLoiimeal+ andnoarly alwa).seat alnd driuk toomnch. Thivransosdc~~jie- ~rtonto f tho stomach, prrrvnring the proper asairnilation of food, producins elua-c,, i,i atiou and au:rmra, wlr~~a.hro iollowed by cousnru~,tiona mong those p r r d ~ ~ ~ c a e d .<, ir ... To prevent th,, disease is to rorrecr all of the foregoing canaes. This is iruenssi-hle nu iar as heredlry and inlproper chest devolopmcnt are con~.e~ued,.bnl,yt con-etantlvemohasizinr. the nrevssitv of d o m ~or not dolng certaln thlugs I have notirc;i ~oiuus igtGof good as aresult. l'rogren* tuwaii irul,n,vement is natn-rally slow,antLey lack faith in what thqwl~italu au tollnrllemar~da nswer, .'What I nee 1 believe," and optical demonaknt~ouiu theaa cnses is alluort impossible. TEE DUTY OF TEE STATE TO EIER INDIANS. 1Hon.H. C. SxrTa, M. C., Ad-, Michl I believe that onr Brat dot ia to fit the Indians for umfd citizenship, and then to clothe them w ~ t cbit ixonsgip. and then to pot npon them tho reryonsihilitiev of r.it-iz-e~o--s~h~ i n. I do not 1,elinve that one Indian can civilize another: they must be removed from the %be, and be assimilated with civilization. Give them more than " a little land wherein to lie." They must toil as others toil to win, toil for wife and child, for State, and for nation. It is the dutv of the State to educate them to some useful trade, or craft, m calling. Just laws, chearfnll obeyed or vigoronsly enforced, are the safeguard of a State or of a nation. $e owe to the Indians the same dnty.we owe to all other persons: The duty to be fair, to be just, to be eqn~tablet,o g v e to h ~ mthe same fair right to property, to life, to liberty, and to prosperity, nuder like circnm-stances, accorded to every other man. Carlyle says, "The one great monster of the worldis theidle mp." I will add that the near neighbor to this monster iar the man who llves or tolls without hope, of reward, and w~thourte sponsibility to bu Government. 859341-30 |