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Show 22 REPORT OF THE COXMI8SIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. ATTENDANCE. The following table will exhibit the enrollment and average attend-ance at all the schools for the fiscal year 1900 aggregated and compared with the previous fiscal year: T-LE NO. lO.-Enrollment and average attendance of Indian schools 1899 and 1.909, showing imeme in 1900; also number of schoola in 1900. Enrollment. 1 AT-e attendzume. Kind of school. 1 echools, 1899. 1 1900. I Inorpase.1 1899. / 1900. I Increase. 1900. Qmernment sohools: Nonresem~tionh a n g.. .... 6 880 7.4M 550 6,WP 6.241 257 95 Resenation boarding ......... 8:881 9,604 725 7 433 8 094 661 81 Day. ........................... -4,951 -5,090 -139 -3:281 C-52.3 -244 -141 ........................ 253 Contract schools: Boarding ...................... 2,468 2,376 '92 2,159 2,098 '61 25 Day ............................ 42 30 112 29 24 ' 5 2 Bo~rding specially appmpri-atedfor ...................... 393 400 7 335 3-29 2 Toid ........................ 2,903 2,806 97 2,525 2,451 '72 32 Publlc ............................. 326 246 80 167 118 Mieon bo&rdinga.. ............... 1,079 1,062 17 960 946 '14 I49 (2)17 Mision day ....................... -182 -213 -31 -154 -193 -39 -5 Aggregate ................... I 25,202 / 26,461 1 1 , 2 4 9 20,522\21,568/ 1,0161 301 1 nccIC1w *TWV~~)-IWI> public u.h.&li in whivh pupil, ard,tauvht not en!nncrarc$ here. s'rhcil.al#toolxn r+ conclolrled hv rellPlnu~mrlellc%,4omcal~rhanhr else Imm rhoGsuenbn~mtf or the lndlanchlidr~,ulh vrarlrll~alid.I .,th:!.g wrhrch thechildrv~,awe l,lillcd N rc*rrsllnn Inrllallr. Statistics of the schools for the New York Indians arenot included in the above table for the remon that as they are cared for by the State of New York this ofice has no jurisdiction over them. Under the Curtis act the Department has been given oversight in a qualified de-gree of schools in Indian Territory, and statistics relating to them will be found hereafter under the appropriate caption of matters relating to that Territory. The above table collates the returns from all other schools which report to this o5ce. There were conducted by the Government during the year 253 schools, an increase of 10 over the preceding year. The total increase in enrollment was 1,412 and in average attendance 1,142, a gratifying and satisfactory growth. The largest increase was in the reservation schools, which indicates the zeal and interest of the superintendents and agents to see that as many children as possible are in the schools. Smallpox, either at the school or in the surrounding territory, caused s, noticeable diminution in attendance at Fort Lapwai, Colville, Crow, Sauk and Fox (Oklahoma), and Sauk and Fox (Iowa), wbile measles, grippe, diphtheria, etc., at several others were responsible for a falling off in enrollment. The Indian population of the United States under thecontrol of the Indian O5ce (excluding the Five Civilized Tribes) was 187,312 in 1899, |
