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Total Population oj Western Samoa. Ist January,' 1926. 31st D<iCember > iS26 " I^ease. Europeans .. • • • • • ■ 2,498 2,552 54 Samoans.. .. •• •• •• 36,688 38,003 1,315 Chinese labourers .. • • • • 890 947 57 Melanesian labourers .. . . • • 155 155 40,231 41,657 1,426 In the above table — _ " European " means any person other than a Samoan, with the exception of the Chinese and Melanesian labourers employed in Western Samoa, who are here shown under separate headings. Thirteen free Chinese, and their Chinese-Samoan descendants, are included. Samoan " means a person belonging to the Polynesian race, whether by pure or mixed descent; but does not include (a) persons registered as Europeans in accordance with any regulations or Ordinances in force in Western Samoa, or (b) the legitimate children of a father who is a European either by birth or by registration as aforesaid. " Chinese labourers " means Chinese under contract to work for a term of years in Samoa, and includes also twenty-seven labourers who, by reason of long service in Samoa, have been permitted to remain here. (This refers to Chinese who were in Samoa prior to the British Military Occupation.) " Melanesian labourers " means Solomon-Islanders who were brought to Samoa during the German occupation of this Territory for work on the plantations. The 155 shown are the few remaining, most of the Solomon-Islanders having been repatriated.

Hospital and Dispensary Statistics for the Year ended 31st March, 1927.

The above figures do not include the children seen in our child-welfare work ; cases attended to at mission stations where no nurse is stationed ; the numbers visited by members of the staff ; nor the thousands who were visited and treated in their own villages during the influenza epidemic of August and September.

Revenue and Expenditure of the Department of Health for the Five Years ended 31st March, 1927.

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Hospitals. | |!i Dispensaries. 'toSSX* —T i T I .3 I II O.i W ! pS* t_, o i « a£ Stations, and Date of | g § j . '? Is = Opening if opened this So'® p, 2 £ i j 1 j f i S : affi Year - I ! S i ! s 5 I I I < JI 5 I § o15 I * I I 5 •! 6 (а) In hospital, 1/4/26 59 1 3 4 67 Fagaloa (Aug., 1926), 1,622 (a) 7 47 13 Fusi (Safata) .. 2,382 (6) 161 1,130 379 (б) Admitted during 1,183 126 184 177 1,670 Gagaemalae .. 6,208 (c) 153 1,055 345 year j Lufilufi .. .. 5,203 (d) 5 71 6 (c) Discharged during 1,106 106 170 171 1,553 Malua .. .. 8,967 (e) 10 51 41 year' ! Mulifanua.. .. 1,961 1(1) Died .. .. 54 16 5 7 82 Satalo (July, 1926) .. 4,041 | Sataua (Aug. 1926) .. 2,062 (e) Remaining, 3.1/3/27 82 5 12 3 102 i SatupaHea .. 5,357 ! Vaiala .. .. 3,427 ' Lefaga (Nov., 1926).. 950 Out-patient attend- 24,116 6,599 7,382 9,997 96,452 ! Pasitootai (Dec. 1926) 2,222 aitces, including j Salega (Nov., 1926).. 2,533 dressings I " Fagamalo (Jan., 1927) 1,423 (/) Treatments for 36 1,118 334 50 2,580 j! Travelling units .. 1,042 (/) hookworm : 2,943 (g) (g) Treatments for yaws 3,063 1,873 909 1,193 9,981 (injections of novarsenobillon) Operations —Major .. 104\ j -1 gg J! Minor .. 320 J j | ] : \ Note. —Chinese out-patient attendances (included in out-patient attendances) numbered 178.

Gross Revenue (Cost of Collection not deducted). Total Percentage! £ Expenditure of ; tn £ per S i i 1 g , Financial Year of Total Head of 8S ' a r $ ® Total (1st April to 31st March). Department Revenue; popula - g g * £ Revenue of Health * Territory 1 tiont S "S ' 1 & ! 1 1 Department Healtn. territory. o S 0 f Health. 9^« a I 3 ! 3 ■ I OQ | 15 H i O £ s. d. £ £ £ ! £ £ 1922-23} .. .. 25,715 19-6 14 1-2 12,500 2,790 '4,299 19,589 1923-24 .. .. 23,995 17-9 12 10-4 12,500 7,327 2,814 2,023 24,664 1924-25 .. •• 24,425 18-7 13 0-2 14,000 7,705 1,461 1,140 24,306 1925-26 .. .. 25,761 17-2 12 11-1 14,000 9,186 1,705 1,603 26,494 1926-27 .. 26,022§ .. 12 6-9 .. * Expenditure shown does not include interest and sinking fund on capital expenditure, cost of repairs to buildings, and miscellaneous expenditure under head XV of general estimates, such as travelling-expenses of officers on leave, &c. Expenditure under these heads does not come under the control of the Department of Health. t Average population taken as the population as at 30th September each year. j Medical levy not in force. It was during this year that the Natives brought forward the proposal that a medical levy be enforced and free treatment instituted. This was agreed to, and came into force on the 1st April, 1923. § Figures only approximate, as final Treasury returns not yet received.