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Show I REPORT OF THE COMXISSIONEB OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 29 ATTENDANCE. For the purpose of exhibiting the enrollment and average attendance at all schools for the 6.ml year 1901, aggregated and compand with the fiscal year 1900, the following table is presented: TABLE No. 8.-Enrollment and average atladance of Indian schools, 1900 and 1901, showing increase in 1801; a180 number of schools in 1901. Enrollment. Average attendsnee. Kind of sehrnl. 25 88 188 -- 1 1 lTalren up in miaslon schwls. PHampton. aNineteen public soh0018 in which puplis are taught not enumerated here. The New York Indian schools are not included in the above tawle,as they are cared for by the State of New York. Under the Curtis act and several agreements this Department has supeiwsory control of educational matters in Indian'Territory, and statistics relative.to the Five Civilized Tribes will be found on page 125, and are therefore omitted from the above table. There are now 25 nonreseivatiou schools, as last year, 88 reserva-tion board~ngs chools, an increase of 7, and 138 day schools, a decrease of 9, making total of Government schools conducted during the year 251, a decrease of 2 from the prevlous pear. The net increase in enrollment of 1,208 pupils, and 1,650 in attend.. ance, are the largest in two years. Both reservation and nonreservat~on schools have so materially increased their numbers as to overbalange the small decrease of 248 in day schools. Several day schools were i closed for short period3 by reason of smallpox epidemics, while this disease and others of similar character interfered with a st111 larger attendance at the boarding schools. A stringent regulation requ~ringco mpulsory vaccination at all schools was promulgated in the following.circular, dated January 2, 1901: Theprevalence of smallpox at many points in the West and its frequent recurrence demand that every precaution shall be taken to guard the pup118 enrolled in Indian |