TO TEACH INDIANS HOW TO BE SANITARY.
ATTEMPT TO LOWER DEATH RATE AMONG REDSKINS. . Determined to protect what remains of the race of the American. Indians from rapid extinction by disease, which now threatens them, the Indian officers have decided to pursue a vigorous policy in improving hygienic conditions among the wards of the Nation. Among the means w'hioh the Indian office already has started, and which it Avill push with vigor in its effect to preserve the Indian from obliteration by tuberculosis and other diseases, are moving-picture shows revealing to them proper and sanitary methods of living, house-to-house canvasses by physicians, open-air sleeping at the Indian schools and sanatorium®. The moving-picture sketch is to show them' by comparison the wrong way of living, followed by photographs showing the correct way. Dr. Ferdinand Shoemaker will have charge of this work and will travel from reservation to reservation giving his illustrated talks.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3339, 4 October 1911, Page 7
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151TO TEACH INDIANS HOW TO BE SANITARY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3339, 4 October 1911, Page 7
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