civilian dentists in a civil service status at each of the district headquarters. At the request of DepHiComTerPacls, the Office of In- dustrial Relations of the Navy Department, on October 27, 1947, established seven positions with the classification “Dentist, P-4,” at a vearly salary of $6127.50, later raised to $6540.00.7. One dentist each wasto be stationedat Saipan, Truk and Ponape and two each at Koror and Majuro. Useof civilian dentists was plannedas a stop gap measure to provide necessary dental treatment for a five year period whenit was hopedthat indigenous dental practitioners, then being trained at Guam, would be able to take over the dental care of the people. Recruitment of civilian dentists proved difficult. Lack of living facilities for families required that the dentists be unmarried and a dental program which for some time had of necessity to consist chiefly of emergency treatment offered small chance of professional improvement. By the end of 1948, five dentists were in the area and early in 1949 one of them returned to the United States. Two indigenous dentists who hadbeen trained bythe Japanese were eventually licensed and practiced on Saipan and Truk. At the close of the period of naval administration, one nonindigenouscivilian dentist was stationed at Koror, one at Ponape and two at Majuro. General supervision of the Trust Territory dental program was the responsibility of the ComMarianas Staff Dental Officer who had additional duty on the HiComTerPacls Staff. Immediate supervision and direction of the civilian dentists employed in the field was the responsibility of the Senior Medical Officer at each civil administration unit. Micronesians were employedby the public health departmentsofall civil administration units and paid from Trust Territory funds. A very few indigenes were medical and dental practitioners who had received their training prior to World War II; late in the period of naval administration a few medical and dentalassistants, trained at the schools on Guam,returned to theislands to serve their internships and several graduate nurses were employed in the dispensaries. The greater number of indigenous employees were health, dental and nurses aides, trained both to care for the ill and improve the sanitation of their islands.* * Encl (A) te DepHiComTerPacls ltr ser 1568 dtd 30 Oct 48. *See tables pp. 873-4. 872 S00o012