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The Papago appear to be healthier people than some of the other 

 Southwestern Indians. In 1902 there were no blind, deaf or dumb, 

 idiots, epileptics, or hunchbacks in the San Xavier district. There 

 was one insane. No one of the informants could tell the writer of a 

 person afflicted with goiter. Pulmonary tuberculosis is well known 

 and feared, but cases of the disease are not numerous. 



Among the Pima tuberculosis in its different forms, including scrof- 

 ula, is quite frequent. According to an estimate made by the waiter 

 while with the tribe in 1905, there are about tlu-ee persons, mostl}^ 

 young,* with developjed pulmonary tuberculosis, to each 1,000 per- 

 sons in the tribe. Deaths due to tubercular diseases of all classes are, 

 according to Dr. A. E. Harden, the resident physician, more numerous 

 than those from all other causes combined. According to statistics 

 submitted by this physician to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the 

 sanitary condition in the Pima boarding school from 1898 to 1903 was 

 as follows: 



1898-1899— Pupils, average, 175. 



Epidemic of measles, 150 cases, 1 death. 

 1899-1900— Pupils, average, 180. 



Epidemic of measles, 53 cases, no deaths. 



Pneumonia, 4 cases, no deaths. 

 1900-1901— Pupils, average, 240. 



2 deatlis from tuberculosis. 



2 deaths from enteric fever (typhoid). 

 1901-1902— Pupils, average, 275 to 325. 



2 epidemics of grippe, 75 and 32 cases', 2 deaths. 

 Epidemic of enteric fever, 24 cases, 3 deaths. 



3 deaths from tuberculosis. 



Besides the above, there occur among the children a moderate num- 

 ber of cases of trachoma, numerous instances of conjunctivitis in all 

 forms and quite numerous instances of impetigo contagiosa. During 

 the \\Titer's first visit at Sacaton in 1902 the disease list of Dr. W. K. 

 Callahan showed the following cases treated, and the order in which 

 they developed, during the month of January: 



" Of four consumptives seen at Sacaton in 190r>, one w as a boy about 10; two were girls, one about 

 12 and the other al)Out 18; and one a boy about 19 years of age. 



