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'Government of Bahrain Annual Report for Year 1362 (January 1943 - December 1943)' [291r] (31/72)
The record is made up of 1 volume (35 folios). It was created in 1944. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Great difficulties were encountered over town cleaning during the vear Th.. i
2 r t,y their r**™ Rf i=
.hen, w,.l, small walled enelosures built with stone and gulh.irrrmgTn'bl^ Overaoo
of these rubbish containers were constructed in different parts of the town.
As in Muharraq the number of pauper burials increased greatly, over 200 persons were buried
at municipal expense Daily throughout the year between 400 and 500 paupe wer Ten LTd
consisting of a handful of dates at tho mnn^ir^i „ j f 1 given looa,
ment the cost of this nndertking ' municipality shared with the Govern-
The municipal authorities co-operated with the Government in various anti-malaria measures
Ltatmr S9UU,g d,StribUtin8 rati0n ^ ^ 90 Government ration shops
and goat^and r^rcaTtt Cleaned 0Ut - ^ 7 ' 000 ^
® , . ' y i Were examine d by the municipal inspectors before being slaughtered ami
t dead T m : ■ r tS ' d0nkeyS ' etC - were remoVed from town and burned The usmal
inspections of coffee shops, cleaning of streets and markets and provision of sand on the roads after
rain were earned out during the year.
There were fifteen meetings of the council during the year and rg sub-committees were
appointed. The decisions of the council included the writing off of old debts amounting "j"
Muharraq Municipality, including Hedd. The revenue for 1362 was Rs 51 000 and
the expenditure was Rs. 52,500. The budget for the year anticipated an income of Rs 46Too aU
of which would be spent. Owing to the financial position no major works were embarked on and th!
mnmcpahty confined its activities to routine duties. Even the norma! work oTto™ cleaning r^-
ng roads and looking after cemeteries, washing places and markets cost considerably more 'than in
the past owing to the increase in wages and prices.
During recent years Manamah has developed into the commercial centre of Bahrain at the
xpense of Muharraq. Trade in Muharraq has declined. When the diving industry was flourishin e
Muharraq was the wealthier of the two towns, it contained the houses and places IfZne^aU
e important pearl merchants and was the centre of the pearl trade. In later years when there was a
s aThv 1 " ''m^ pr i OSperit >' of Muharrac l decreased. Though many of the leading merchants
small traders^who^se. haVe | m0Ved their and P'^es of business to Manamah and many
J';" 0 0PS ln Muharra< J ha ™ ^w transferred their shops to Manamah or
the extensive Tod W ' th Manamah sh opkeepers. Many of the big old fashioned houses and
are smaT ,n raq ^ half empty and aS a result the munid P al ta * collections
bnildines Urin f s" 1 ' rf " ^ C0UnCil reVieWed and the SCale of house taxes and reclassified the
reducefhe taxTd 1""^ WaS m f de 0n ^ h0USe taX Paid by Wealthy "olders in order to
Rs ,1, 7 genuinely poor and old debts, in arrears for many years, amounting to
number of sto"^ . Wr . aS 11 was found that man y of the debtors were dead or insolvent. The
taxation an 1 fr T™ 6 t0Wn 15 3 ' 910 and 0f baraSti h0USeS 601 but 883 houses are from
rr r 4 , h0US ; S are empty - The exem Ptions include houses belonging to the Ruling Family,
r:rr Ple a rellgiOUS leaderS - There ^ 949 Sh0pS 0f Which a re empty and in some
the sumlThT 111 " 011 , 5 , Were reSponsible for certain items of expenditure in the budget which exceeded
dailv cos , T/ • The C0St 0f feeding betWeen Six and ^ hundre d destitute people
burials whirl W ' C0 ^ much as du r ,n g th e previous year and there was a big increase in pauper
sheets S t r re 6 0f the higher priCe 0f flat Stones used for coverin g graves and of winding
maintenan JT 1 mumcpalemployees and labourers were higher owing to war allowances and the
fittings.' 0 " eSlan " CllS ^ PUbllC Washlng places increascd because of the price of pipes and
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This volume is the Annual Report of the Government of Bahrain for the year 1362 AH (1943) and gives the details of the Revenue and Expenditure of the Bahrain State and contains notes on the activities of the various Government departments, as well as the budget 1363 and some particulars of importance which took place in Bahrain during the year. It includes text, photographic images, graphs and tables. The report appears to be compiled from reports from various Government departments and officials. An Index appears on folio 278r, followed by a General Review by Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (folio 279).
The contents are divided into the following sections and sub-sections:
- Budget 1362 (folios 280r-281v): Revenue, Expenditure, Summary of Revenue and Expenditure for year 1362, and Statement of Revenue and Expenditure for year 1362;
- The Diving Industry (folios 282r-282v);
- Police and Public Security (folios 282v-284v): Strength, Duties, Uniform and Equipment, Rations, Police Pay, Jail, Crime, List of Police Prosecutions in the Bahrain Courts 1362, and List of Police Prosecutions in the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. Court 1362;
- Public Health, report by Dr R H B Snow, State Medical Officer (folios 285r-290r): Bahrain Government Hospital (Male Statistics 1943, Short Notes on Statistics, Chief Out-Patients Diseases, Predominating Out-Patients' Diseases (Men), Male In-Patients, Male In-Patients, Bahrain Government Isolation Hospital, Total Male In-Patients, Results of Treatment, Major Operations, Minor Operations, Injections, Laboratory and X-Ray Statistics, Bahrain Government Dispensaries, and Comparative Incidence of Predominating Diseases Hospital and Outlaying Dispensaries), Women's Hospital and Dispensaries report by Dr I M A Doeg, Lady Medical Officer (In-Patients Diseases Treated, Out-Patients Treated, Details of Obstetric Cases, Operations, Women's Dispensaries, Summary of Diseases Treated, Medical Work in the Girls Schools), and Matron's Report;
- Land Registration Department (folio 290r-290v);
- Judicial (folio 290v): Bahrain Courts;
- Municipalities (folios 290v-291v): Manamah Municipality and Muharraq Municipality;
- Wakf [Waqf] Department (folio 291v);
- Education (folios 291v-295v): Boys' Schools report by F J Wakelin, Director of Education (School Statistics, Staff, The Secondary School, The Hostel, Village Schools, English Teaching, Medical, Equipment, British Council Assistance, Public Library, Clubs, School Plays, Games, Recruitment by the Oil Company, and Finance), Girls' School, and The Technical School report by Mr G E Hutchings, Principal (Students, Staff, and Scheme of Training);
- Minors Department (folios 295v-296r);
- Agriculture (folio 296r);
- Passport Department (folio 296r-296v);
- Food Control (folios 296v-297v);
- State Engineer's Department, report by Mr W B Steele, State Engineer (folios 298r-302r): Statement of Energy generated, sold, etc., Profit and Loss Account, Balance Sheet, Load and Revenue Curve 1361, and Load and Revenue Curve 1362;
- Oil Gauging (folios 303r-304r): Graph showing Field Production and Crude Oil Imports 1942 and Graph showing Field Production and Crude Oil Imports 1943;
- Customs Department, report by Mr G W R Smith, Director of Customs and Port Officer (folios 305r-308r);
- General (folio 308r): Investiture, Presentation of Guns, Distinguished Visitors (including Lord Wavell, the Viceroy Designate, Lord Linlithgow, Governor-General and Viceroy of India, Amirs Khalid and Mahomed [Muḥammad], sons of His Majesty King Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd]), Customs Directorate, Poor Relief Measures, Race Meeting, Sunni Kadhis [qādis], Obituary of Shaikh Mohamed bin Ali Al Khalifah [Muḥammad bin ‘Alī Āl Khalīfah];
- Note on Budget 1363 (folios 309r-310r);
- Budget 1363 (f. 308r).
Illustrations appear on one folio and they are labelled as follows:
- Folio 283: 'Jail and Police quarters, Juda Island'.
On folio 310r there is an inscription that reads 'The Times of India Press, Bombay'. Handwritten annotations and corrections are present (for example, folio 305r).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (35 folios)
- Arrangement
This file contains an index (folio 278r) which references pages of the report.
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Foliation: Folios 276-311.
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- 'Government of Bahrain Annual Report for Year 1362 (January 1943 - December 1943)'
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- Belgrave, Sir Charles Dalrymple
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