We have from 2 to 10 patients a day coming here for treatment. Of course we can do little for them, but if we tell them that they just sit patiently and wait and when we find that they have come ten miles on horse back from over the river we do what we can. So far flu, bad colds, approaching pneumonia, and wounds and burns. Endless sore eyes, many of them trachoma, no doubt, have been the main difficulties. For most things we can give only temporary relief.

It was the Navajos themselves who instigated our health program. Almost from the moment of our arrival they started coming to us for medical aid. When we saw the magnitude of the need, we tried to get the Indian Service to send us a physician at stated intervals using our camp as headquarters. This proved impossible due to the Wartime shortage of physicians, but we kept on telling them of the need and their interest in our work grew. Finally they arranged to send us a doctor [Dr. Logan] for a day. That was last November [1944]. So many patients came that he had to stay two days. Now we have just had the second clinic, and Dr. Logan from Fort Defiance, brought with him Dr. Cutler, a dentist new to the Indian Service. They arrived May 22, [1945], and it was not long before there were waiting lines. For three days we kept these two good men busy, to the great benefit of our people. –Father Liebler, St. Christopher’s Newsletter 1945