Tuberculosis Among Indians of the Plains

 
Database ID25812
InstitutionSaskatchewan Archives Board
Fonds/CollectionSaskatchewan Archives Board General
SeriesX49
File/Item ReferenceX49
Date of creation1928
Physical description/extent1 folder; 1 cm of textual records
Number of images1
Historical noteFull title: "Tuberculosis Among the Indians of the Great Canadian Plains" by R.G. Ferguson M.D. pgs. 5-56, in Transactions of the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis at the Fourteenth Annual Conference (London, England).
Scope and contentA study on tuberculosis in Canadian Plains Indian populations by Dr. R.G. Ferguson. Includes a brief history of the Aboriginal peoples of the Canadian prairies followed by a research study on the death rate, age-incidence, sex-incidence, type of disease, family resistance, resistance by generation, and effect of white blood infusion on resistance, morbidity, incidence of infection, type of pulmonary disease, housing and sanitation, and other matters involved with tuberculosis infection. Much of the study data comes specifically from the Qu'Appelle Indian Agency in South Eastern Saskatchewan.
Restrictions on accessThere are no restrictions on access.
ContributerFerguson, R.G. (author)
Copyright holderUnknown
Copyright expiry dateUnknown
TypeArchival
Primary MediaTextual documents
Specific document typesArticles
Provenance Access PointSaskatchewan Archives Board General
PlaceQu'Appelle, Saskatchewan, Canada
Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan, Canada
Treaty boundariesTreaty 6
Cultural regionPlains
NamesQu'Appelle Agency
SubjectHealth -- Illness -- Disease
Health
Health -- Illness
Health -- Issues
Health -- Medicine
Housing
Federal Indian Agencies
Disease - Tuberculosis
Date Range(s)1920-1929
1910-1919
1900-1909
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