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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS 3 smallpox, and, reports received indicate that the campaign was very successful. GENERALCO NnlTlONS AND RESO~~TS. -TU~~~aCnUd ~trOacSh~oSm a continue to cbnstitute the most formidable problems.with which the medical service is confronted. Tuberculosis carries the major death toll of the Indian race. However, progress has been made in limit-in the ravages of this disease. %he new sanatorium school located at Shawnee, Okla., with s capacity of 100 beds, has been in operation during the year and is developing into a successful institution. A new dormitorj has been added to the plant of the Fort Lapwai Sanatorium, Idaho, affording increased capacity and better facilities for properly caring for patients there, and as this is an impof ant institution, maintaining, as it frequently does, a waiting list of atients for whom there is no room, Congress has appro riated Lnds for an additional dormitory and hospital building for the coming year. When these are completed, Fort Lapwai will be an excellen-t i~ns~titu.t ion forthe care, treatment, and education of tuber-culous children. During the year the former boarding-school plant at Pyramid Lake, Nev., bas been converted into a sanatorium school with a capacity for 80 patients. This institution will care for the tuber-culous children of this particular part of the countrv, where there has been an increasing'demand $or sanatorinm aciommodations, since through education these Indians are more fully realizing the value of such institutions. The trachoma work has been continued and expanded during the past year. The southwest trachoma campaign has been continued with excellent results. Two physicians and two nunes have been added to the workers in this district. The record of the work ac-complished by the special physicians engaged in this campaign is as follows Number of Indians examined for trachoma. .--------.-14-,7-66- ----------. Number of cases of trachoma found-.--------..--------.----------- 4,479 Number of cases operated upon.--..------__..-.---.-.---.---.---. 1,938 Number of canes treated without owration .--------..--2.,6-41- .--------. Besides the campaign in the Southwest, the other special physi-cians have kept up the trachoma work in their districts. The tra-choma hospital at Albuquerque, N. Mex., has been filled to capacity throughout the year Additional trachoma work will be under-taken during the coming year in connection with the reorganization of the Indian medical service. The field nursing service has been extended and a number of reser-vations have been supplied with graduate nurses for public-health nursing in Indian homes. This new service is greatly needed and is being developed as rapidly as is consistent with available funds. The service still needs more sanatorium schools, additional ho i tals for the care of terminal cases of tuberculosis, an institution ?o'r-the care of.the feeble-minded, and a hospital for crippled children. During the year the construction of a hospital at the Klamath Agency, Oreg., was begun and this institution will soon be completed and in o eration. Heretofore the Klamath jurisdiction had no hospital facilities. The new institution, with a capacity of 50 beds, will, it is believed, care for all Indians of the reservation 12950--2-2 |
