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Show 2 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN aFFAIRS with the Indian children with a definite health program.' In the course given the value of health habits to be acquired in early life is emphasized, and stress is placed upon average habits--such habits as can be adopted by the average pupil and carried over into the realm of character. IP CHILD HEALTH nA~.-The lst day of May has been set aside as Child Health Day for the whole country. The IndianSemice will observe it in all of its schools. Secretary Herbert Hoover, of the Department. of Commerce, has written into the literature of this '! day a preanible to the child's bill of health, as follows: "The purpose of the May Day celebration is to force attention upon our most precious inaterial asset--our children. The tie be- , tween .the child and all' adult life is at once the strongest and the gentle& in human nature. Greater sacrifices are made for children than for ourselves; greater happiness is derived from these sacri-fices than from all the triumphs that personal success can bring. Our daily :labors, whether in the home or in the outside world of competition for material things, or even in the search for culture and for spiritual advancement, derive largely from the conscious or unconscious impulse to cherish the child and to hold the child's affection and respect. "Lest in the hurry and strain of life we should ever forget these obligations, it is well for us to recall the child's bill of rights, which ma'9 be expressed as follows: The ideal to which we should strive is that there should be no child in America, that has not been born under proper conditions, that does ,not live in hygienic surroundings, that ever suffers from undernutrition, that does not have prompt and efficient medical'at-tention and inspection, that does not receive primary instructionin the elements of hygiene. and good health." EP~EMICS.-The ygar to which this report i ertains could be desig- nated as's, year of ep~demics. Not since the scal year which ended 'I June 30,1919; ba,ve there been so many cases of influenza. Besides influer&a, ,there have been epidemics of smallpox, measles, scarlet fever,,rpuni s and chickenpox. The population of many reserva-tions and scgdols have been invided, some of them being attacked.by I several of tb,epi'demics in rapid succession or simultaneously. One case of t phus was reported from a school in Arizona. Although the year.i a s not been a normal one, there has been an excess of births over ileaths and coce uently an increase in population. GENE- Dl+BEs.-%dians have the same diseases as other people and possess no racial immunity from any class of diseases; however, there .are fewer cases of cancer, typhoid, fever, diabetes, Bright's 1 disease, and cardiova&ular disease, according to population,, than among the white races. This is also true of pneumonia, except per-haps m years characterized by measles and influenza epidemics, when tbereis always an increase .in the number of cases and deaths from this diseclse. Although the Indian Medical Service has to con-tend with 'all diseases that., are common to the country, its most formidable problems continue £0 be tuberculosis and trachoma. Tw~noaosls.-The conditions in .the Indian Service with respect to tuberculmi's are graduLlly improving. Im rovement among the Rosebud Sioux in consequence of the program f or the prevention and |