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'Government of Bahrain Annual Report for Year 1362 (January 1943 - December 1943)' [294v] (38/72)
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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increase from Rs. 150,000 to Rs. 210,000. The additional expenditure has been on staff salaries, books
and furniture.
In 1362 the average expenditure per boy was Rs. 106-/6 compared with Rs. 87-/8 in 1361.
Government Girls' Schools.
The work of the Girls' Schools was carried out during most of the year under considerable
difficulties. Because they were unable to obtain passages the Syrian teachers failed to arrive in
Bahrain until a month after the term had started. The local teachers worked well and did their best
although lacking qualifications and in many cases unexperienced in holding senior posts. In addition
to this the difficulties in the Manama School were increased by the resignations of the headmistress
and her sister about three months after the term had started, the former resigned owing to ill-health,
having serious eye trouble, and the second mistress resigned in order to travel with her sister. After
the two senior teachers left the local teaching staff carried on the work under the direct supervision
of Mrs. Belgrave.
There was no change in the curriculum of the schools during the year. Owing to lack of staff
various new developments which had been planned were not embarked upon and cookery lessons
were suspended owing to the impossibility of obtaining supplies of food. The number of girls
attending the schools increased and three new class rooms were built in Manama. About one
hundred applicants for admission to the schools were not accepted owing to lack of suitable staff and
accommodation.
Out of ten girls who graduated by taking their leaving certificates five were taken on as junior
teachers.
Mrs. Sawaf, Headmistress of the Muharraq School, was appointed Schools Superintendent for
Hedd and Rafa.
A mild form of physical exercises was practised daily in the Manama and Muharraq Schools.
The health of the girls appeared to be better than in the previous year especially in Muharraq, this is
probably accounted for by the fact that a large proportion of the Muharraq students are from the
Ruling Family or from families of merchants. One of the Government lady doctors or nurses
visited the Schools weekly during the year.
The annual exhibition of the needlework of the combined schools was held again at the Palace,
Manama, by kind permission of His Highness. The standard of work was high and there was much
competition to buy those articles which were for sale. The exhibition was attended by men on the
first day and ladies on the second day, the crowd was so great on the second day that some people
were unable to get inside the rooms.
Manama and Muharraq Schools presented plays during the term, the proceeds from the sale
of tickets together with a contribution from a private boys' school amounted to over Rs. 2,000 and
were expended on clothing for poor students.
Monthly cinema performances for the girls' schools were provided during the year by the
Public Relations Department which also supplied the Schools with a number of interesting periodicals
and pictures.
The total number of girls at school at the end of the year was 822 and the number of teachers
in the four Schools was 37 of which only two were foreigners.
Among the new girls who entered the Manama School at the beginning of the year there was
an unusually large proportion of Shia Bahama. The Bahama community in the past has held back
from sending girls to the Girls' Schools though they have always sent their boys to the Government
Schools. Pupils in the Manama School included Arabs, Bahrana, Sunni and Shia Persians, Indians
and Jews, in Rafa and Hedd all the children are Arabs and in Muharraq they are Arabs and
Holis
Group of people who migrated from the Arab shores of the Gulf to the Persian side over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, many of whom have since returned to the Arabian Peninsula.
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Sunni Arabs of Persian origin. It is a sign of the changed attitude of a section of the community
towards female education that a number of daughters of religious leaders are now attending the schools
which, when they first started, were vigorously opposed by the students' fathers.
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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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