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The census on St. George Island on December 31, 1939, showed a 
population of 176 natives, including 1 who moved there from St. Paul 
Island, and an orphan child from Unalaska who was adopted into her 
married sister’s family under authorization by the Commissioner of 
Fisheries, upon recommendation of the superintendent of the Pribilof 
Islands. The child is the daughter of a native woman born on St. 
George Island who moved to Unalaska following her marriage to a 
native of that village. There were 7 births and 2 deaths during the 
year. 
The total native population of both Islands at the end of 1939 was 
450. 
MEDICAL SERVICE 
Two physicians at the Pribilof Islands rendered medical aid to the 
natives and tbe Government employees residing there. Health 
conditions in general were satisfactery, and there were no epidemics of 
a serious nature. 
A summary of the medical services rendered on St. Paul Island for 
the year ending March 31, 1940, showed, in addition to the periodic 
examinations of school children and routine health inspections in the 
village, 1,890 calls made upon the doctor in the dispensary during 
the year, 151 house calls, and 52 patients admitted to the hospital for 
a total of 979 days of care. This hospitalization included 12 obstetri- 
eal cases, the mothers and babies receiving care for 336 days; 17 
surgery cases covering 207 days of care, and 11 medical cases totaling 
436 days. Thirty X-ray studies, of one film or more each, were 
made during the year. 
At St. Paul Island on July 1, 1939, a seaman aboard the Penguin 
was found to have contracted measles. A 2 weeks’ quarantine was 
accordingly ordered for all passengers, both white and native, arriving 
on the vessel, and no other cases of measles developed on the Island. 
In January 1940 Carl Loy, employed on sea-otter patrol at Amchitka 
Island, was stricken with acute appendicitis. Advice and orders for 
treatment were given by the St. Paul Island physician by radiophone. 
The patient was removed by special trip of the Coast Guard cutter 
Haida to Unalaska, where a successful appendectomy was performed 
in February. 
On St. George Island, which is provided with a dispensary but no 
hospital, the physician extended medical service to the natives in 
2,652 cases, including office and home calls, during the year ending 
March 3 1940. A native woman was sent to Seattle on the Penguin 
in November for diagnosis and treatment in the hospital of the Office 
of Indian Affairs at Tacoma, Wash., and a native man made tbe trip 
to the States on the March sailing of the vessel for an operation at the 
same hospital. 
In order to benefit the medical service on St. George Island, it is 
planned that a hospital will be established there similar to the one 
which has been in use on St. Paul Island since 1931. 
A dentist was on duty at the Islands throughout the year. During 
the absence of a physician on St. Paul Island from March 18 to May 
15 the dentist was in charge of the dispensary and hospital there. 
The dental work completed in the fiscal year ending March 31, 1940, 
included 92 dentures, 408 fillings, 250 extractions, 4 bridges, 4 inlays, 
and 15 plate and bridge repairs. 
