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MEDICAL SERVICES 



The usual medical services and facilities were available to the 

 Government employees and to the natives. A physician was de- 

 tailed to St. Paul Island and another to St. George Island throughout 

 the 3^ear. The health situation among the natives presented nothing 

 of unusual moment. Sanitary conditions in the villages were satis- 

 factory. 



SCHOOLS 



Schools for the native children are maintained on both St. Paul 

 and St. George Islands. On each island there are a senior and a junior 

 school. Two teachers are employed on each island. Instruction 

 necessarily is confined to the elementary branches. 



St. Paul Island. — The 1926-27 school year began on September 7, 

 1926, and closed on May 13, 1927. In the senior school 25 children 

 were in attendance and in the junior school there were 29. 



St. George Island. — The school yeaf began September 13, 1926, and 

 the senior school closed April 22 and the junior school March 3, 1927. 

 The senior school had an attendance of 25 pupils and the junior 

 school 14. The earlier closing of the junior school was due to the 

 necessary temporary absence of one of the teachers. 



ATTENDANCE AT SALEM INDIAN SCHOOL, CHEMA^VA, GREG. 



On January 1, 1927, five natives of St. Paul Island (three girls and 

 two boys) were in attendance at the Salem Indian School at Chemawa, 

 Oreg. There were no new enrolhnents during the year. One boy, 

 Mamant Emanoff, returned to his home on St. Paul Island. The 

 four m attendance at the end of 1927 were Mariamna Merculieff, 

 Kleopatra KrukofF, Tatiana Krukoff, and Abraham S. Merculieft". 



SAVINGS ACCOUNTS 



Certain of the Pribilof Islands natives and the St. Paul Island 

 native church have funds in the custody of the United States Commis- 

 sioner of Fisheries. Throughout 1927 these funds were kept on 

 deposit with the Washington Loan & Trust Co., Washington, D. C, 

 and interest was paid at the rate of 3 per cent per annum, calculated 

 on monthly balances. Three accounts for natives were closed during 

 the year. A summary of the accounts as a whole for the year 1927 

 is shown in the statement that follows : 



On hand, Jan. 1, 1927 $12, 719. 71 



Interest earned from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 1927 366. 00 



13, 085. 71 

 Withdrawn by natives in 1927 1, 449. 51 



On hand, Dec. 31, 1927 11, 636. 20 



