Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1887 — Indian Consumption. [ARTICLE]

Indian Consumption.

Of the present destroyers of the Indians, according to Dr. Washington Matthews, the chief is consumption/ Census returns show that, while the death-rate among Europeans is 17.74 per thousand, and that among Africans is 17.28, the rate among the Indians is no less than 23.6, and that, while among the Avhites 166 deaths in the thousand are from consumption, and among the negroes 186, there are- 286 among Indians. The influence of civilization has greatly increased the consumption rate among the Indians, the effect seeming to be partly due to change of diet and partly to causes not yet understood.