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enlisted Hospital Corps rating, one native nurse's aide, and
8 health aides, Each of the ten Yap districts has a first aid
station, manned by one or two native aides trained in emergency treatments.
The CivAd dispensary is of reinforced concrete, typhoonresistant construction. Its reconstruction from what had
originally been a Spanish fort had just been completed at the
time of this inspection. The dispensary was well-arranged,
clean and orderly. Medical records were in good shape and
supplies were adequate. Sixteen beds for natives have been
authorized, with one ward for tuberculosis patients.
Adjacent,
older quonset construction provides presently for 2/, additional beds.
A training course to improve the quality of health and
nurses! aides is conducted at the CivAd dispensary.
The general nutrition of the people appeared to be good.
Tuberculosis incidence is estimated to be 5%. Yaws are present,
but appear to be decreasing under prescribed treatment. Determination is being made of possible cases of leprosy remaining
on Yap.
All known cases (65) have been transferred to the
Tinian leprosariun,
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Sanitation at Yaptown was excellent.
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A new water catch-
ment system is being constructed at Yaptown which will replace
the presently deteriorating salt-water distilling plant. Sanitation in the districts of Yap Island is supervised by the
native first aid personnel, who also have police enforcement
power.
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Education.
Schools on Yap Island are under the immediate supervision
of a new educational administrator, Mr. George Ramos, There
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is an Intermediate School at Yaptown, and an elementary school
in each of the ten municipalities on Yap.
Total school
attendance is 274. The intermediate schoolhouse is new and
of concrete, anti-typhoon, open-sided construction. dlementary
schools outside of Yaptown are of native, thatched-roof construction.
Forty-three pupils attend the Intermediate School, which
has 4th and 5th grades, and a special English and arithmetic
class conducted for dispensary aides. Most students at this
school and in the Yaptown elementary grades wore their native
costumes, Attendance is reported as excellent, and enthusiasm of the pupils at the time of this inspection was noticeably
high.
Tnree PITTS graduates teach in the Intermediate School and
the Yaptown elementary school. There are four Yap young men
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