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'Government of Bahrain Annual Report for Year 1362 (January 1943 - December 1943)' [293v] (36/72)
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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Clubs. There are five clubs for Arabs in Manama and Muharraq. Their activities are not
very wide-spread. Each has a meeting room crowded with small tables and chairs where members
gather to gossip over tea and cigarettes. In some cases there is a library of sorts and in all a Radio
and few indoor games. None could be called a centre of cultural or intellectual development (although
some of them do make this claim). Their committee and members are sadly lacking in initiative and
drive.
In two cases, however, evening classes are held in Arabic, Arithmetic and English. We try
as far as possible to encourage this by the provision of books and occasionally paying visits to the
classes and giving lessons there.
Recently one club in Muharraq entertained a party of R.A.F. men and issued a standing invita
tion to any who wish to drop in, an invitation which has been readily accepted by a few.
The British Council sends magazines regularly to these clubs, most of them in English but a
few in Arabic also.
School Plays. As a result of the financial success of the Secondary School play in 1361
each school and club determined to outdo the others by the production of a super-spectacular show.
This resulted in a veritable festival when for a period of two months the Public were invited
to subscribe, and then to attend a rather dreary play once a week. Certainly large sums of money
were collected which were, it was claimed, to be used for such creditable purposes as building club
libraries or for clothing the poor. The public were, in the end, a little surfeited and not a little wearied
by the seemingly endless stream of " Blank Tickets."
The most disturbing aspect of the matter was that the activities of the staff and the boys of
the schools were directed solely towards the collection of money. No attempt was made to derive
any educational experience from the preparation and production. Carpenters and tailors were hired :
none of the properties were made by the boys themselves. The expenses were therefore enormous.
For these reasons the sale of tickets for school functions has now been prohibited.
The Secondary School play produced Rs. 3,400 which was allocated to the Public Library.
The proceeds of the Primary School plays—Rs. 2,000 were used to provide clothing for all village
schoolboys.
Games. A very successful inter-school sports meeting was held on the Fort ground on 15th
R/Thani (22nd April 1943). His Highness, accompanied by Shaikhs Abdulla and Mohamed bin Isa,
attended and gave away the prizes. The standard of performance was surprisingly high considering
that so much time was expended in practising for the ten minutes drill display, that preceded the
field events, and in debating who should carry the flag in the march past, that there was no time to
train for the events.
Football matches are now held more regularly and fewer are scratched by teams anticipating a
beating ; but the attitude towards defeat remains unaltered. When asked the result of a match
in which his team was beaten 4—2 a boy will reply, " We scored two goals."
Recruitment by the Oil Company. In the past the management of the Bahrain
Petroleum Company rarely recruited from the upper forms of the Government Schools finding that
untrained boys with no education make better progress than those with a little schooling who think
that they already know all that there is to learn. The requirements on the clerical side being a working
knowledge of English, efficiency in the four rules of Arithmetic and a receptive mind. Improved
methods of teaching are now having their effect so that a fourth year Primary School boy is now
more trainable than a Secondary School boy of a few years ago.
It is hoped, in the not too far distant future, to work out a practical scheme for the encourage
ment of the recruitment of Bahrain Schoolboys both on the clerical and technical sides.
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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.
- Physical characteristics
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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