from Stan Mills
In a report issued last week by the U.S. Public Health Service the terrible conditions under which the majority of American Indians live were exposed. This authority is in charge of the welfare of some 340,000 Indians who live in 250 federal reserves in 23 states, The death !-azet for the American people as a whole is much higher than that of the Indians — the average age at which people dic in the U.S. as a whole is 63, the average Indian dios at 43. Indians havo 4 timos as high a death rate from T.B, and 3 times as high a death rate from influenza and pneumonia as other Americans. Indians have 5 times much gonorrhoea, 20 times as much meningitis and 100 times as much dysnetry as tho rest of the American population,
The reasons for these figures are oasy to find. More than = of the families on some reservations have no sourco of pure water for drinking and household use. They haul their water from ditches which are often used by livestock and badly polluted. Most Indians have either no, or vory inferior,toilet facilities, The American Indians also suffer from various restrictions, lower wages, and inferior educational opportunities, Not a few Indians have been inspired into activity by the rising struggle of the Amcrican Negroos.