Roosevelt Standard | 1952-08-21 | Page 10 | Dr. C. M. Cameron Assumes Fort Duchesne Duties

Dr. C. M. Cameron Assumes Fort Duchesne Duties Dr.' Charles M. Cameron, Jr., of the U. S. Public Health Service, Ser-vice, has assumed duties a medical officer in charge of the Branch of Health of the Uintah and Ouray Indian Agency, it was announced this week by Harry W. Gilmore, superintendent superinten-dent of the agency at Fort Duchesne. Du-chesne. "Doctor Cameron is a specialist special-ist in the field of preventive medicine and public health and will not only act as director of all health activities at the agency, ag-ency, but will serve as consultant consul-tant in medical care to the Ute Tribal Council. " Mr. Gilmore said. He revealed that the Indian Bureau was interested in improving im-proving the medical care available avail-able to the Indians and the fullest full-est utilization of all. community health resources in the area will be made in an attempt to achieve this objective. Doctor Cameron, a veteran of more than six. years with the service, comes to Utah from the Papago Indian Agency in southern south-ern Arizona. He received his medical training at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, the Harvard School of Public Health, and the Communicable Disease Center. He has lived and worked in Louisiana, Maryland, Mary-land, Tennessee, Georgia, and has been stationed in -the Washington, Wash-ington, D. C. area on two. occasions. oc-casions. He and his wife, the former Lee Cheek, of Atlanta, are residing re-siding in the physieian's quarters quar-ters at the Uintah Indian Hospital Hos-pital at Fort Duchesne. "It is hoped that-the medical program which Doctor Cameron will introduce will not only result re-sult in better medical care for the Ute Indians, but will assist them in achieving their inde-tndent inde-tndent status as private citizens citi-zens in the state," Mr. Gilmore concluded.