The Native American WorldView

Alcohol mortality is 10 times the rate of all other combined races In Portland this is 23.7 per 100,000 (1987) versus 6.0 for the U.S. as a whole.. Tuberculosis is 7.4 times greater than the normal. In Portland, the rate of Tuberculosis among the Indians is 4.7 per 100,000 (1987) versus .5 per 100,000 for the U.S. as a whole. ................
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