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Savings of the Aborigines (1923)

Number of Villages Total Sum of Deposits Number of Depositors Deposit per Depositor Deposit of the Highest Depositor
Taihoku 28 yen
4,159.670
477 yen
8.734
yen
133.600
Shinchiku 55 12,953.636 443 29.241 468.280
Taichū 51 10,613.270 339 31,307 527.960
Tainan 11 1,539.445 33 18,548 60.000
Takao 39 7,605.740 188 41.000 637.240
Taitō 62 29,137.190 917 31.770 2,921.680
Karenkō 143 45,570.320 1,998 22.750 1,000.000
Total 389 111,579.271 4,415 25.102 -

III. Medical Work

In opening the eyes of the savages to the goodwill of the Government and the blessings of civilization, nothing can surpass medical treatment. By means of it, they can be rendered docile, and at the same time their welfare can be promoted.

The aborigines, who were ignorant of any remedies for maladies exepting for the superstitions use of certain herbs and plants or resorting to weird incantations, have come to learn the wonderful efficacy of scientific medicine, and some patients now even enter hospitals of a modern type for treatment. All this shows that they are gradually advancing in the direction of civilization.

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