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hoped that the deficiencies in these records will stimulate further 

 scientific inquiry into the subject wherever opportunity offers. 



The Southern Ute are subject to various digestive and pulmonary 

 disorders, including consumption. Insanity is very rare, and no one 

 could tell of having seen a case of epilepsy in the tribe. Convulsions 

 in children occur. There are but few cripples, and in every case 

 seen the deformity was due to some accident. Many children die 

 from "colds" and intestinal diseases. The cases that came under 

 the writer's observation consisted mainly of more or less chronic dis- 

 orders of the digestive organs; there were also several cases of cough, 

 one of pulmonary tuberculosis, two of enlarged prostate, several 

 instances of sore eyes, and a fracture of both bones of the forearm. 

 Syphilis and gonorrhea exist, but it was not possible to ascertain to 

 what extent. There was no trace of rachitis or of any pathological 

 cranial deformation. 



Among the Apache in Arizona and New Mexico the disease that is 

 assuming the greatest importance is pulmonary consumption. There 

 is scarcely another tribe in the Southwest or in northern Mexico in which 

 tuberculosis is so prevalent. On the San Carlos reservation, among 

 a population of a little more than 3,000, there occurred from 1901 to 

 1903, according to Dr. R. H. Ross's report to the Indian Bureau, 255 

 deaths, of which 95, or over 36 per cent, were due to different forms 

 of tuberculosis. The writer found tuberculous glands or recent scars 

 due to them in more than 6 per cent of the school children at San 

 Carlos. 



Among the Mescaleros the conditions are even worse. The deaths 

 and causes of death among this people, who number about 450 indi- 

 viduals, during the five years ending July, 1903, were, according to 

 Dr. W. Harrison's report to the Indian Bureau, as follows: 



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