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Show REPORT OF THE INDIAN SCHOOL SUPERINTEKDENT. LXXVII At least $25,000 will be needed for repairs and $50,000 for new build-ings the comiug xear. The appropriation bill limita the expenditure for a da~-schoobl uild-ing to $000, wliicll i6 in most cases iusoffioieut to erect a building suita-ble for the purpose. These schools being located at Iudiancaml~sl,o ng distauces from any white settlement, quarters for the teacher must be provided either in the school building or elsewhere in the vicinity. A suitable school building, with two additional rooms for the teachers, can-not be completed for the sum allowed to be expended. Certain indus-tries should be taught at the day schools. A noon-day lunob should be prorided for the children, and the girls should be taught cooking, sew-iug, and general housework. A man and his wife should be employed in each; a man thus situated could render valuable service in teaching the Indians in the vicillity gardeniog and farming. HOSPITALS. I respectfully call attention to the necessity for separate aocommoda-tions for the sick at the boarding schools. At the large schools thereis seldom a time when there are not oneor more pupils requiriug medical treatment. Nearly all the boarding schools are without hospital racilities. It re-cently became necessary to dishhnd one of the schools, ow-ing to the ill-ness of a single pupil of acontagious disease. Aeco~u~uodatioushso uld be provided in a separate building for suoh cases. A hospital at each school might also be used for the care of such 111- dians as require medical treatment and who cannot receive proper at-tention at their homes. The necessity of this is set forth in a letter written by one of the most successful Indian agents concerniug hisJagency, as follows : There are no facilities whatever for the care of t,he sioir. The physician may do all he om, but, the Indian who becomes aerioualy siak bas but little chance of re-covery. He is of neceavitp left in his tepee, lyiug on the ground and exposed to all the discomforts, squalor, and wretcheduesa of his surrouudings. Ia tho name of hu-manity there shoold be some friendly cover or shelter where he oould be taken to re-ceive the caresud attention dues human being, where medicine could be ndrninint,ered regularly as pwsoribed, and where a. nurse could give him hulnane care; inother word!, a hospital where he could be given a resaooable chance for his life. For these rwssons, I earnestly urge that the attention of Congress be called to this important subject and that au appropriation for this pur. pose be advised. ' TIIE OURRENT FISCAL YEAR. All the schools conduoted by the Government last year are in opera ti011 during the current, fiscal year. A boarding school, with accommodations for fifty pupils, has been eut.~blishedfo r the Apaches at San Carlos Reservation, Arizona. The agent reports a, willing~less on the part of the Indians to send their cliildreu. |