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Show I REPORT OF THE COMMIS810NEE OP INDIAN AFFAIBS. 11 I from which these stereopticon slides and moving pictures can be made. This exhibit will be sent to the different schools and reser-vations. One of the most important results of this educational work will be that it will instruct the employees at the schools and agencies of the Indian Service as to the methods of preventing disease, and in this way unite the entire service in the health campaign. Increased attention is being given to sanitary inspection. It 1s planned, wherever possible, to have a house-to-house inspection by a physician of all Indian homes on a reservation. This will make it possible not only to accurately learn the extent of disease and provide for proper treatment, but it will also make it possible for instruction to be given the Indians as to how they may improve the sanitary conditions of their homes, and thereby prevent disease in future. A beginning in this work was made last year on the White Earth Reservation, where the need was pressing. Two special phy-sicians were authorized to carry on the work. More than 200 homes were visited and 1,266 persons examined. Of this number 690 had trachoma and 164 tuberculosis in its various forms. Only 25 per cent of the homes visited were considered sanitary. This work will be vigorously followed up during the present year until the whole reservation is covered. Arrangements have been made with the Bureau of Animal Industry to make an inspection and test for tuberculosis of all the dairy herds in the service. The sanitary inspection of the equipment and methods for the production and han-dling of the milk supply is included. This work is now in progress. The medical supervisor is having the schools in the service sys-tematically inspected with special attention to ventilation, disinfec-tion, and personal hygiene. He has recommended, where prac-ticable, the construction of screened porches for sleeping quarters for pupils whose physical condition is not up to the standard. All pupils presented for admission to a boarding school are given a thorough physical examination. If a child is found to be affected with any disease that would probably be made worse by attending school or that would endanger the health of the other pupils he is not admitted. Three of the reservations where the greater number of day schools are located, namely, Cheyenne River, Pine Ridge, and Rosebud, have a day-school physician, who makes regular visits to each of the day schools under his supervision to look after the health of the pupils and to see that proper hygienic and snnitaq wnditions are maintained in the schools. CANTON ASYLUM. Relief is now in sight for the overcrowded conditions at the Canton Asylum. There are 102 insane Indians in the United States. Sixty of these are in the Asylum for Insane Indians at Canton, 24 are being cared forein state asylums, and 18 are receiving no treatment at |