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Show INDIAN RACE i3 S NOT DYING OUT Denver. SpL 15. Contrary to general gen-eral opinion, the Indian race Is not rapidly dying out, according to Dr. Jo-eeph Jo-eeph A. Murphy, United States medical medi-cal Injector of Indian schools, who Ik here attending a conference of Indian In-dian s chord inspectors. While the death rate among the In- dlans Is nearly doublo that among the j white race, the birth rate Is proportionately propor-tionately higher, Dr Murphy derlars. and the balance Ik ullghtly in favor of j race increase The death" rate among j the red-skinned rate Is about 30 in I every' 1.000. while the birth rate is j about 31 In every l.ooo. I To the vigorous campaign inau-', inau-', gurated among the Indians against tuberculosis tu-berculosis Ik attributed tho increase ; of births ver deaths. |