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PHYSIOLOGICAL, AND MEDICAL OBSERVATIONS 



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TUBERCULOSIS 



APACHE (white MOUNTAIN) 



The figures relative lo pulmonary 1u])ercul()8is are sul)ject to change. In six months 

 all cases cited here may have passed away and a new series, more or less, have taken 

 their places. Only definite cases are set forth in the report and incipient or cases of 

 predisposition avoided. In the past two months two cases that suffered with glandu- 

 lar tuberculosis for many years became infected in the lungs and died. Others in 

 rol)U8t health l^ecome infected and perish as rapidly. 



IIcMUorrhage is rare in Indians and secondary infection, ))y the g(n-ms causing pus, 

 rapidh' follows invasion by the tul)ercular l)acilli. 



Dr. A. M. WiGGLESWOUTH. 

 APACHE (white MOUNTAIN) 



■ Children whose lives have been spent practically out of doors from birth to the day 

 they enter school find on entering school a strange and uneasy condition, which some- 

 times causes temporary ailment. I have ordered that Apache children in school 

 receive, in addition to good, wholesome, well-cooked food, the purest air that they 

 may remain healthy; the sleeping rooms must be open and cool. One of the means 

 of checking tuberculosis in the school is to subject the children before being received 

 in school to a careful examination by the physician and accept only the healthy. 



From a special report of C. W. Crouse, agent. 



CARLISLE INDIAN SCHOOL 



The only case of tuberculosis is that of glandular form in a female adult Chijjpi'wa. 



CHEYENNE AND ARAPAHO 



The patients reported are of the following ages: 



No. of 

 case. 



1 

 2 

 3 



4 



5 



1 



2 



3 



4 



5,6 



7 



8,9 



10.11 



11,12 



13 



14,15 



1 



2 



Pulmonary. 



....do , 



..-.do , 



....do 



....do 



Glandular. 

 do 



.do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 



do 



Bones and joints. 

 do 



Form of tuberculosi-s. 



Age of .\ge of 

 male, female. 



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Tuberculosis is met with among these people in all its varied manifestations. It 

 can not be said that the disease is on the increase among the Cheyenne and Arapaho 

 Indians, but until they learn to observe more carefully the laws of hygiene, any 

 marked diminution of the disease among them can not be hoped for. 



Dr. Geo. R. Westfall. 



