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Show 6 COM~SSIONFJI OF INDUN AFFAIBB. accommodate I20 patienta At Fort Apache, Ariz., and at the Salem school, Oreg., the special hospitale are being continued, but without entire success at the Salem school, because.of excessive humidity dur-ing the winter. The effectiveness of our sanatoria is apparent on their records, w&ch show that between 10 and 11 per cent of the patients have recovered and that more than 90 per cent have shown marked improvement. As with tuberculosis, the prevalence of trachoma differs greatly in the tribes. In the Northwest some of the reservations are practically free, whereas in the Southwst at some places 65 to 95 per cent of the Indiana are infected. . The two specialists in trachoma employed in the service have vis-ited nearly every point in the Southwest, treating existing cases and giving local physicians full ins t~ct ionsa bout the peculiaritiies of the disease and its prevmtion. These two special physicians have examined and treated more than 6,000 Indians. During the next fis-cal year they will devote some of their time to the Northwest, and at the beginning of 1913 they wiI1 have so organized the campaign as to be able to inspect the whole field. At the trachoma, hospital a,t Phoenix, Ariz., in charge of two spe-cialists in diseases of the eye, over 800 cases have been operated upon and treated. This hospital also affords valuable means of instruction to regular physicians from the field who are able to visit it. The prevailing statement of the superintendents is that in their sohools and on the reservations there has bean an encouraging im-provement in health and that the Indians are build'ig more sanitary houses. Nevertheless, at a few points in the Southwest, as at Forb McDermitt and Walker River, Nev., and Colorado River, Havasupai, and other places in Arizona, where the physical environment is nn-favorable, the superintendents report little or no progress. At these superintendencies renewed and persistent efforts will be made to improve conditions. AGRICUIJFURE MD BTOCK RAISING. The policy for the economic and social emancipation of the Indians from the protection of the Government requires that they, like other Americans, should found their prosperity and development upon the basic industry of the utilization of land. The Indians' capital is very largely land, and their environment and every natural circum-stance make it peculiarly necessary that the great majority of them should become farmem and stock raisers. In parts of the country, especially in the Southwest, some tribes were agricultural when Europeans first penetrated to their villages, and to-day every family |