Trafzer C E
Public History and the Costo Historical and Linguistics Native American Research Center, University of California, USA.
Can Bull Med Hist. 2001;18(1):85-107. doi: 10.3138/cbmh.18.1.85.
According to Death Registers kept by agents of the Office of Indian Affairs, between 1922 and 1946, Cahuilla, Kumeyaay, Cupeño, Luiseño, Serrano, and Chemehuevi people of the Mission Indian Agency of Southern California suffered 180 recorded deaths caused by tuberculosis, the leading cause of death resulting from infectious disease. Nearly half of those who perished were between the ages of 15 and 39. The leading "occupation" of those who died was "child/student." Throughout the period under examination, Indians had much higher crude death rates per 100,000 population than did all people in the United States. In 1926, the Native death rate reached its zenith of 661, compared to 86 among all races within the United States. Death rates among First Nations people in Southern California declined during the 1930s and dropped off dramatically during the 1940s due to public health efforts of field nurses and teachers as well as the agency of Indian elders who taught children about the causes, transmissions, treatment, and prevention of tuberculosis.
根据印第安事务办公室工作人员保存的死亡登记册，1922年至1946年间，南加州传教区印第安事务局的卡惠拉人、库迈亚伊人、库佩尼奥人、路易斯尼奥人、塞拉诺人以及切梅胡维人中有180例有记录的死亡是由肺结核导致的，肺结核是传染病致死的主要原因。近半数死亡者年龄在15岁至39岁之间。死亡者的主要“职业”是“儿童/学生”。在整个调查期间，印第安人的每10万人口粗死亡率远高于美国所有人的粗死亡率。1926年，原住民死亡率达到顶峰，为661，而美国所有种族的死亡率为86。由于现场护士和教师的公共卫生努力以及印第安长者向孩子们传授肺结核病因、传播方式、治疗和预防知识，南加州原住民的死亡率在20世纪30年代有所下降，并在20世纪40年代大幅下降。
