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estimated Indian population as for each 1000 of the general population of the country as a whole. The highest Indian death rate (39.2) is reported for Nevada. Other states with Indian death rates higher than 30 are Arizona (38.9), Idaho (35.8), Utah (35.8), Colorado (32.8), and Nebraska (32.4).

In Idaho Indian deaths are relatively five times as frequent as other deaths within the state. Other states show striking differences, all unfavorable to the Indian.

Deaths reported among Indians in Oklahoma, exclusive of the Five Civilized Tribes, yield a death rate of 12.8, a rate so low as to suggest many omissions in reporting. This rate is one point higher than the general death rate of the country as a whole, but lower than that for Indians in any other state. How the Indian death rate in Oklahoma compares with the general state rate cannot be determined, since Oklahoma does not record deaths in the general population with sufficient completeness to be included in the death registration area of the United States.

Kansas, with a death rate of 14.5, ranks next to Oklahoma in the approach toward a death rate lower than the rate for the reservation population for all states combined. But in Kansas likewise, the explanation is undoubtedly that an exceedingly large number of Indian deaths go unreported.

Tuberculosis Deaths. Incompleteness in reporting deaths and inexactness in reporting causes of death make it impossible to determine accurately the extent to which any given disease takes its toll. Table 4 shows, however, the number of the death certificates with tuberculosis as the stated cause of death. With all the known inadequacy of the reports, the Indian Service statistics in this table show more than seven times as many deaths from tuberculosis in each 1000 of the estimated Indian population as reported in each 1000 of the general population in the death registration area. The Indian tuberculosis death rate is 6.3 as compared with 0.87 for the registration area. The Indian death rate from tuberculosis in Arizona, 15.1, is more than seventeen times as high as the general rate for the country as a whole. The death rate from this one cause among the Arizona Indians is considerably higher than is the rate for all causes combined in the general population of the registration area.

In Table 5 the statistics presented show the tuberculosis death rate for each reservation with an Indian death rate from tuber-