J Am Med Assoc, Aug 1922; 79: 668: Public Health Nursing on Indian Reservations. -- To test the feasibility of public health nursing on the Indian reservations, the American Red Cross has inaugurated a survey among the Navajo, Pima and Popago [Papago] and other reservations of Arizona, New Mexico and South Dakota. Three Red Cross nurses have been assigned to the survey, and the Red Cross has appropriated $9,000 to cover their salaries and expenses. The test is being made at the request of Charles H. Burke, U. S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
J Am Med Assoc, Jun 1924; 82: 1870: Medical News. New Mexico. Conference on Medical Problems of Indians. -- Representatives of the Department of the Interior, physicians of McKinley County and all physicians in the employ of the Indian Service on the local Indian reservation met at Gallup, April 21, to confer on health problems which concern the Indian. Dr. Hubert Work, Secretary of the Interior; Commissioner Burke, Bureau of Indian Affairs ; Dr. John McMullen, trachoma specialist, U. S. Public Health Service; Dr. Robert E. Lee, Newberne, chief medical supervisor of the Indians ; Herbert G. Hagerman, commissioner of the Navajo Indians ; Dr. Rudolph D. Moffet, New York City, head of Presbyterian mission work ; Dr. George S. Lukett, state director of public health ; Dr. James W. Bazell, Navajo County health officer, and others from distant places were present.
BURKE, Charles Henry, (1861 - 1944). BURKE, Charles Henry, a Representative from South Dakota; born on a farm near Batavia, Genesee County, N.Y., April 1, 1861; attended the public schools of Batavia, N.Y.; moved to the Territory of Dakota in 1882 and settled on a homestead in Beadle County; moved to Hughes County in 1883; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1886; engaged in the real estate investment business in Pierre, S.Dak.; member of the State house of representatives in 1895 and 1897; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1907); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress; elected to the Sixty-first, Sixty-second, and Sixty-third Congresses (March 4, 1909-March 3, 1915); chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs (Sixty-first Congress); minority whip (Sixty-third Congress); did not seek renomination in 1914 having received the Republican nomination for United States Senator, but was unsuccessful for election; resumed the investment business; appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Washington, D.C., on April 1, 1921, and served until his resignation on June 30, 1929; engaged in the real estate and loan business in Pierre S. Dak., and also worked in the interest of Indians in Washington, D.C.; died in Washington, D.C., April 7, 1944; interment in Riverside Cemetery, Pierre, S.Dak. Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001087
J Am Med Assoc, Jun 1924; 82: 1870: Medical News. New Mexico. Conference on Medical Problems of Indians. -- Representatives of the Department of the Interior, physicians of McKinley County and all physicians in the employ of the Indian Service on the local Indian reservation met at Gallup, April 21, to confer on health problems which concern the Indian. Dr. Hubert Work, Secretary of the Interior; Commissioner Burke, Bureau of Indian Affairs ; Dr. John McMullen, trachoma specialist, U. S. Public Health Service; Dr. Robert E. Lee, Newberne, chief medical supervisor of the Indians ; Herbert G. Hagerman, commissioner of the Navajo Indians ; Dr. Rudolph D. Moffet, New York City, head of Presbyterian mission work ; Dr. George S. Lukett, state director of public health ; Dr. James W. Bazell, Navajo County health officer, and others from distant places were present.
BURKE, Charles Henry, (1861 - 1944). BURKE, Charles Henry, a Representative from South Dakota; born on a farm near Batavia, Genesee County, N.Y., April 1, 1861; attended the public schools of Batavia, N.Y.; moved to the Territory of Dakota in 1882 and settled on a homestead in Beadle County; moved to Hughes County in 1883; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1886; engaged in the real estate investment business in Pierre, S.Dak.; member of the State house of representatives in 1895 and 1897; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1907); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress; elected to the Sixty-first, Sixty-second, and Sixty-third Congresses (March 4, 1909-March 3, 1915); chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs (Sixty-first Congress); minority whip (Sixty-third Congress); did not seek renomination in 1914 having received the Republican nomination for United States Senator, but was unsuccessful for election; resumed the investment business; appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Washington, D.C., on April 1, 1921, and served until his resignation on June 30, 1929; engaged in the real estate and loan business in Pierre S. Dak., and also worked in the interest of Indians in Washington, D.C.; died in Washington, D.C., April 7, 1944; interment in Riverside Cemetery, Pierre, S.Dak. Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001087
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