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At the appropriations hearings in 1926,^[1] the Indian Office reported 83,306 Indians examined for tuberculosis (1925), with positive findings in 5142 cases. This is 6.2 per cent of the number examined. During the same year, 1695 Indian cases, or 33 per cent of those found were hospitalized for tuberculosis in sanatoria. Quite a large number of additional cases were hospitalized in agency and school hospitals. As this service was only of a temporary character and designed to care for cases awaiting transfer to sanatoria or their homes, it need not be considered in the present discussion.

The only information available on the medical activities of these sanatoria was obtained from the monthly hospital reports on file in the Indian Office. They are very incomplete and do not give a clear picture of the situation. For example, it was impossible to obtain from each of these institutions a classification of cases on admittance according to the stage of disease, or a classification according to the condition on discharge, whether quiescent, im