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Appointed medical inspector, the writer compiles annual inspections and statistics documenting widespread tuberculosis and high child mortality among Indigenous children in residential schools between 1904 and 1921. Findings show infection originating in homes, pervasive disease across ages, and unusually high deaths among pupils, and lead to recommendations for expanded local schools with farm training, government-managed oversight, provincial curricula, medical inspection, and fresh-air treatment for tuberculosis. Despite corroboration from medical authorities, officials resisted or suppressed action. The account serves as a factual record and an appeal for accountability and improved public-health measures for the affected communities.

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Title: The story of a national crime

Being an appeal for justice to the Indians of Canada

Author: P. H. Bryce

Release date: September 26, 2024 [eBook #74482]

Language: English

Original publication: Ottawa: James Hope & Sons, 1922

Credits: Andrew Sly and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF A NATIONAL CRIME ***

THE STORY
OF
A NATIONAL CRIME

BY
P. H. BRYCE, M.A., M.D.

BEING
AN APPEAL FOR JUSTICE
TO THE
INDIANS OF CANADA

The Wards of the Nation:
Our Allies in the Revolutionary War:
Our Brothers-in-Arms in the Great War.


Published by James Hope & Sons, Limited
OTTAWA. CANADA

1922

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