See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].
Quebbeman, Frances E. Medicine in territorial Arizona. Phoenix : Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966, page 363.
J Am Med Assoc. 1924;82(26):2128: Trachoma Campaign Among the Indians. A crusade to eradicate trachoma among the Indians of Arizona and New Mexico will be inaugurated, July 1, under the direction of a special physician of the Indian Office assisted by surgeons of the U. S. Public Health Service, it was announced at the Interior Department, June 17. The campaign known as the Southwestern Trachoma Campaign grew out of the recent trip made by Secretary of the Interior Work and Commissioner Charles H. Burke of the Bureau of Indian Affairs to survey health conditions among Southwestern Indians. A conference recently held between Dr. John McMullen, surgeon, U. S. Public Health Service, and a committee appointed by the Indian Office, resulted in the completion of plans. Dr. James S. Perkins, special physician in charge of the states of Arizona and New Mexico, will direct the movement to stamp out trachoma. Temporary trachoma hospitals will be established in Indian school buildings unoccupied during the vacation period. There will be three operating units that will go into the field, each headed by a special physician with a crew of Indian employees sufficient to carry on the work of examining and treating Indian patients suffering with trachoma efficiently and expeditiously. The three units will begin work at Fort Defiance on the Navajo jurisdiction and from there will proceed to other jurisdictions. Trachoma nurses will be employed and assigned to various schools and stations for carrying out the after-treatments prescribed and all necessary medical supplies and equipment will be furnished by the Indian Office. Dr. Polk Richards, Fort Defiance, Ariz., has been designated as consulting ophthalmologist for the campaign, which is the first of its kind to be conducted by the government against trachoma among the Indians....
Quebbeman, Frances E. Medicine in territorial Arizona. Phoenix : Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966, page 363.
J Am Med Assoc. 1924;82(26):2128: Trachoma Campaign Among the Indians. A crusade to eradicate trachoma among the Indians of Arizona and New Mexico will be inaugurated, July 1, under the direction of a special physician of the Indian Office assisted by surgeons of the U. S. Public Health Service, it was announced at the Interior Department, June 17. The campaign known as the Southwestern Trachoma Campaign grew out of the recent trip made by Secretary of the Interior Work and Commissioner Charles H. Burke of the Bureau of Indian Affairs to survey health conditions among Southwestern Indians. A conference recently held between Dr. John McMullen, surgeon, U. S. Public Health Service, and a committee appointed by the Indian Office, resulted in the completion of plans. Dr. James S. Perkins, special physician in charge of the states of Arizona and New Mexico, will direct the movement to stamp out trachoma. Temporary trachoma hospitals will be established in Indian school buildings unoccupied during the vacation period. There will be three operating units that will go into the field, each headed by a special physician with a crew of Indian employees sufficient to carry on the work of examining and treating Indian patients suffering with trachoma efficiently and expeditiously. The three units will begin work at Fort Defiance on the Navajo jurisdiction and from there will proceed to other jurisdictions. Trachoma nurses will be employed and assigned to various schools and stations for carrying out the after-treatments prescribed and all necessary medical supplies and equipment will be furnished by the Indian Office. Dr. Polk Richards, Fort Defiance, Ariz., has been designated as consulting ophthalmologist for the campaign, which is the first of its kind to be conducted by the government against trachoma among the Indians....
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