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Show 10 COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. ' knowledge which it, can command to secure to future generations of Indians the best of all birthrights-the right to be well born and to possess sound minds in sound bodies. HEALTEHD UCATION.-Ifm edical service for the Indians consisted only of the dispensing of medicine to those who are ill, the dyties would be very simple, notwithstanding their importance. But the Indian medical service is a social uplift service allied inseparably with its educational and-industrial activities. The present administration is seeking to discourage a perfunctory response to duty and to foster a real, !ive, purposeful policy and determination to restore to a race its pristine health and virility by means of the application of the laws of preventive medicine, operat-ing fhrough education, social uplift, and constructive science, as applied to nutrition, hygiene, and the relations of all the agencies under control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations of Indians, either physically or mentally. The purpose of the Indian Service is to bring about gradual and per-manent improvement in the physical, mental, and moral nature of every Indian who may be influenced by the factors and conditions that promote favorable cha,nge. The hope of the Indian race lies in the children, and what we wish to appear in them must be taught in their schools. D~s~as~s.-ThIen dians are subject to the same diseases as white people. They have more trachoma and perhaps more tubercu-losis, but there are fewer venereal diseases, less diptheria and scar-let fever, and, as a rule, pneumonia is not so prevalent among them as it is among the whites. The problems of treatment and care of the Indian, however, differ in man respects from the treatment of white people. Tact and a knowl ?ec ge of Indian nature, with expe-rience in the use of preventive measures,,are as essential to the success of the service physician as an, intlmate uriderstanding of medicine and surgery, and in this direction he may be greatly aided by the efficient field matron whose duties closely relate her to the family, especially the mothers and daughters, and who in her work I for the improvement of home condit~ons is often able to locate many cases of disease and by skillful sympathy obtain the consent of the patient for medical treatment. E~w~~ros.-Severarle servations, particularly of those in the Southwest, have had visitations of measles, smallpox, chickenpox, mumps, scarlet fever, and influenza in an attenuated form. Some cases of sore throat mlth infection have also been present in q, few communities. Several deaths resulted from bronchial. pneumonia following measles. but there were no fatal issues from any of the other dis-eases named in the preceding paragraph. The epidemic situation w~ t hre spect to these diseases was practi-cally clear at the close of the fiscal year. TYPHUS m . - T y hus fever appeared on the San Juan Navajo Reservation about dvember 20, 1920, by introduction from a neighboring Republic. The disease occurred among. the Indians, and, with the exception of Dr. Davis, a medical missionary of the Presbyterian Church, whose station was at Red Rock, and Dr. Graffin, agency physician at Shiprock, both of whom died, it has |