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Show TUBERCULOSIS KILLS RED MCN. Awful Ravages of This Disease Amonn the Indians. "Tho full blood lnilinns of tho United States are scarcoly Holding their own in point of Increase ol population," remarked Capt. Downs, special Indian agent of the United Stales government. "In .eonie of the tribes thero Is a slight Incicnse, hut it is anions the mixed bleeds and not mining thoso of pine aboi Initial htock. Tho deadly foe of tho rod nuiii continues now. as for ninny years past. t to be tuberculosis. "Just why this disease should seem to commit greater ravages among the Indians is dimcult to understand At first the theory was that It was duo to their chnnged mode of existence; iltat tho transition from a savage to civilized llfo made them pectillarlj susceptible. I am Inclined to think that there Is but little basis foi tills view, especially as the number of vie-Mms vie-Mms claimed by consumption shows no bIrii of diminution, although ninny years have clnpsed since the Indian forsook his primitive ways of living "A more reasonable explanation Is found In tho present habits nf the people peo-ple In lmlldlng their tepees or log houses thej make very ecant allowance allow-ance for vcntllitlou. and sleep in qunr terh fiom which ueidi nlr Is largely excluded. Besides, a dozjui or more Individuals In-dividuals will occupy n loom that otiKht not at the most to contain more than two Another bad practlco of which It Is dimcult to break them 1b that of the common pipe. A group of Indians will take turns In smoking the same pipe, and If ono of tho party he diseased thero is always tho danger dan-ger of its being transmitted." Washington Wash-ington Post. |