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furnished at Suva, the Trust Territory administration thought that
the one pound ($2.68) given the other students would be sufhcient.
A cartonof cigarettes, however, cost approximately one poundat Suva
and no money remained to purchase air mail stamps, a most necessary requirement for the Trust Territory students. Therefore, in
accordance with the recommendation made bythestaff anthropologist,
HiComTerPacls increased the allowance to five dollars retroactive to
February 1, 1951. On April 13, 1951, funds to cover the additional
sum were sent to the Director of the school '’ but by the end of May
the latter had still not distributed them because he feared it would
create dissatisfaction if some of the students received twice as much
spending moneyasthe others.”
By the endof the period of naval administration, some of the diffculties were being corrected. Plans were being made for the construction of a new andlarger school at Suva, dental training had been
started and the students were becomingbetter adjustedto life in a new
The move of the medical and dental students, however.
was one of the most unfortunate results of the transfer of Trust Terrttory administration to the Departmentof the Interior.
Admiral Rad-
ford’s fears for their contact with still another alien culture were
justified, but as he hac earlier acknowledged, it was the onlylogical
solution at the time.
The plan to have the School of Nursing remain on Guam underthe
direction of a Catholic nursing order did not materialize because the
transfer of the School of Medical Assistants to Suva removedclinical
and laboratory facilities for the nursing students. In the spring of
T951 it was decided to conduct nurses’ training at Truk as one of the
PITTS schools after the Trust Territory became the responsibility of
the Departmentofthe Interior.
Research
Facilities for research on Trust Territory medical problems were
available at the Institute of Tropical Medicine of the U. S. Naval
Medical Center, Guam, and at the Naval Medical Research Institute
of the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland. Research
On intestinal parasitism was a continuing project at the navalfacilities
and extended by a parasitological survey of Yap in the summer of
44
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