_OUR HOSPITAL AT FORT YATES, N.D._

By The Physician in Charge, Cynthia E. Pingree, M.D.

I am sure that all will be glad to hear a word about the hospital for
Indians, especially as there is nothing but good news to tell.

This hospital has now been built about two years. It will seem very
small when I tell you that it has but two wards, containing three cots
each, a bath-room, dispensary, reception room, doctor's and nurse's room
and dining room; and yet when the patient comes to us, he feels that we
have not only every convenience, but a great many luxuries, and from
this little Woasui Tipi or House of Healing, goes out many a ray to
gladden the hearts of those whom we to-day are trying to bring from
darkness into light.

But little has been done for these people when ill, except conjuring,
which is synonymous with torturing, but these "medicine men" are
losing their hold upon the faith of those who at one time, and that
not long past, trusted them fully, and the more intelligent ones
gladly avail themselves of treatment. And no class of people needs it
more, the filthy manner in which they live causing much sickness. It
has been a great surprise to me as well as to them, to see how much
simple cleanliness will do in very many of these cases. The old rule,
"remove the cause, the disease is removed," holds true in these cases.
It is encouraging to see how soon some of these come to see the great
importance of this.