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Title: Indian babies : how to keep them well
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: United States. Office of Indian Affairs
Subjects: Infants -- Health and hygiene Infant Care
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Government Printing Office
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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AN INDIAN SERVICE HOSPITAL. mothers can then have good treatment and the babies will get a goodstart in life. AMien the superintendent or physician tells you you ought to goto a hospital, you should go at once. Of course, all Indians treated in hospitals do not get Avell, butalmost all of them do. You are much more likely to get well iftreated in a hospital than if treated any other Avay. 26 INDIAX BABIES : HOW TO KEEP THEM WELL.
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SAVE THE BABIES. January 10, lOlfi.To superintendents and other employees of the United States Indian Service: In au address before the Congress on Indian Progress held at San Francisco in Augustof last year I said : It is our cliief duty to protect the Indians health and to save him from prematuredeath. Before we educate him, l)efore we conserve his property, we should save his life.If he is to be perpetuated, we must care for the children. We must stop the tendency ofthe Indian to diminish in number, and restore a condition that will insure his increase.Every Indian hospital bed not necessarily occupied with those suffering from disease orinjury should be available for the mother in childbirth. It is of first importance that webegin by reestablishing the health and constitution of Indian children. Education andprotection of property are highly important, but everything is secondary to the basiccondition which makes for the perpetuation of the race. That thought has deepened its hold

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