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As I have said, conditions are improving; yet much remains to be done; and it should be done quickly. An exhaustive inquiry into health conditions among the tribes was made in accordance with an act of Congress in 1912, and the report presented in January, 1913, was in brief as follows: 1. Trachoma is exceedingly prevalent among Indians.
There is danger of the spread of tuberculosis and trachoma from the Indian to other races. Due care is not taken in the collection and preservation of vital statistics. The medical department of the Indian Bureau is hampered by insufficient authority and inadequate compensation.
In this state, measles and scarlet fever are among the communicable diseases which must be reported. Trachoma, a virulent form of conjunctivitis, is a communicable eye disease which must be carefully safeguarded. It flourishes in unsanitary surroundings, camps, and homes where the family uses the common wash basin and towel. There are not many cases in this state, but even one is too many.
An effort has been made to detect incipient tuberculosis and trachoma and segregate and treat those infected, so that healthy families may not be infected through the return of a child who has been infected at school. Regular talks are given to the children on sanitary matters.
The sanitary state of the camp has always been excellent. Apart from two relapse cases of dysentery in 1916, there has been neither trachoma, typhoid, typhus, malaria, nor any other infectious disease.
But Jimmie grew better, and one shining morning Miss Pinkerton stopped and said, "Jimmie's well enough to go with me on my daily round. He needs a change." After she had carted two or three loads of children to the Center, she went to visit the sick ones in the camps for miles around. First they went to another "jungle," one where trachoma was bad.
You know these Indians. When they aren't blind with trachoma they can see further and better than a telescope." Bassett made an effort. "What's that got to do with Jud Clark?" he asked. "Well, she blew in. You know there was a reward out for him, and I guess it still stands. I'll have to look it up, for if Maggie Donaldson wasn't crazy some one will turn him up some day, probably.
There wouldn't hardly anything else make 'em treat that horrid itch and trachoma and all the catching diseases hardly anything but being Christians." "Aw," Dick jeered. "If the church folks got together and put their foot down they could clear up the whole business in a jiffy." "We always been church folks ourselves," Grandma snapped. "It isn't so easy to get a hold."
Old chiefs, half blind with trachoma, scarred with scrofula and decrepit with starvation; young bucks, fresh and still strong, danced side by side, turned by the alchemy of the drum into like things, young and vivid as dawn. At intervals, at the bidding of the braves, squaws arose and moved sedately into the circle.
"Lydia," he said, dropping into Amos' chair and folding his big arms, "you know my tract of land the one I was going to buy from an Indian? I paid young Lone Wolf a ten dollar option on it while I looked round to see how I could raise enough to pay him a fair price. He's only a kid of seventeen and stone blind from trachoma. Well, yesterday I found that Marshall had bought it in.
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