 After World War One most of the young men left the island and the population fell from 73 in 1920 to 37 in 1928.After the death of four men from influenza in 1926, and a succession of crop failures in the 1920s, the last straw came with the death from appendicitis of a young woman, Mary Gillies, in January 1930.On 29 August 1930, the last 36 inhabitants were evacuated to Morvern on the Scottish mainland at their own request.