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1832 U.S. vaccinates Native peoples on the frontier against smallpox Congress passes the Indian Vaccination Act and appropriates $12,000 to hire physicians to vaccinate Native ... |
1879 U.S. assigns health care at boarding schools The Office of Indian Affairs, recognizing that epidemics are decimating boarding school student populations, ... |
1887 Tuberculosis is a leading cause of death in Indian Country A U.S. study of tuberculosis deaths among Indians on reservations in 13 states finds that the rate of ... |
1898 Indian Medical Association forms and dissolves Medical doctors form the Indian Medical Association to advocate for American Indian health care in the ... |
1898 Boarding-school epidemics sicken students and kill many The superintendent of the Fort Hall Industrial Boarding School in Idaho, George Gregory, advises in ... |
1898 Milk served to Indian students to ward off tuberculosis The Office of Indian Affairs issues rules for food service at off-reservation boarding schools: “good, ... |
1903 Tuberculosis incidence tracked on reservations Around the turn of the century, reservations suffer epidemic rates of tuberculosis. The Native people ... |
1903 Overcrowding, poor ventilation contribute to deaths in boarding schools Indian boarding schools are built hastily or adapted from existing barracks, and officials bring Native ... |
1904 Government assesses tuberculosis on reservations Tuberculosis continues to to be a major problem on reservations. U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs ... |
1908 Government hires medical workers to fight tuberculosis The Office of Indian Affairs hires part-time field matrons, who are trained in home economics, to work ... |