Deseret Evening News | 1901-04-11 | Page 10 | Population of Samoa

POPULATION OK HAMOA 01 Census Shows n R Very lery I SlIght o In Thirty Tutuila March 27 via San Francisco April 11 Correspondent of 0 the As Aso o elated Press PressA A census of the tho population lion tion of ot tIme the Samoan group roU has 1111 been Iiii taken Inken lon The number of ot In tYpo Uro Upolu lu ho and other Islands l under tIme the German Germait government le Is I 20 while the time population population tion lion of the lie fix six Islands 1 land under tinder lideI the United States government Is 19 returned 1 at IS 80 The Time very veo slight Increase during the last thirty years Is 19 about the time same In pro proportion proportion portion all around The Infant mortal immortal mortalIty It Ity IU Is greatest ni and this Is due In a n large e measure to lo time the Ignorance and careless carelessness ness fleas nelll In dieting the young oun U It 1 li is not un usual ual to 10 see s n a mother fueling hor hr infant from the tIme mouth month after sh AhA hm has hn herself masticated ted the Iho food tod Intended for or the lie child It l is only the time States a took look possession p that thal tin the have hae been able to 10 receive advie and anti treatment With the sanitary laws Ils now In iii force torce und anti the laws concerning the health of tin people through throughout out nut fUt lh th this Island tj It II Is ts that during the next decade there will 1 lie IKS Ii a 1 consid considerable erable rahle of the native nals ion Of n H F TI returned from New Ness ew Zealand aland on th the Ahr on March 14 U UThe The natives showed shoed their delight at nt time the governors nel return by b giving a n number of ot fete In lila his hi honor returns return from tom nil all ni Justices have hn been licen ent nt Into 1011 Ino the Ih high court of at ofal atall all ca eases all es tried trl lly by iT lUI magistrates te up to the time al end of 0 last month Th reports Indicated ed mat great Improvement among the Sa Se moann These The p statements together with wih the regular reports of or the Iho native Io gos oy officials are carefully and other eror prepared and are lre models of ot neatness The native officers are arc not lacking Al Altogether 11 altogether together In education but there thet Is II good Jo opportunity for tin the United States to ro assIst them In lh their lr desire delre to obtain greater knowledge kno