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'Government of Bahrain Annual Report for Year 1363 (January 1944 - December 1944)' [326r] (29/76)
The record is made up of 1 volume (37 folios). It was created in 1945. 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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27
Venereal Disease.
The statistics show an alarming increase in number of cases of V.D, and also in the number
of abortions.
Atersia.
The use of salt and alum in midwifery cases conducted by the Arabs continues in spite of all
advice, and during the year many cases have been seen among quite young women only recently
confined for the first time, and now injured irreparably for life, much work will be required to eradicate
this evil.
LAND REGISTRATION DEPARTMENT.
{From the report of K han S ahib M ohammed K halil M emon, Superintendent, Land
Registration Department).
Only routine work was done during the year, there were no special surveys. Fees amounting
to Ks. 22,348 were collected from registrations on 738 sales, gifts and registrations of titles, though the
number of registrations was less than in 1362 yet the fees were almost double owing to the high prices
which were paid by purchasers of property. Out of the registrations 536 were sales, 147 were regis
tration of titles and 55 were gifts. During the first half of the year the boom in land values appeared
to have reached its height, in the second-half of the year prices remained stationary and there was less
demand for properties. It was generally believed that owing to the expansion of various commercial
concerns and the services the value of land in Bahrain was unlikely to drop after the war. This
assumption may be correct in the case of house property in Manama but it is unlikely to be true in
the case of gardens in distant parts of the islands many of which have been bought at excessively
high prices by naturalised Bahrain subjects and foreigners who have made fortunes from war time
trading. Though the price of dates caused a rise in garden rents this condition is only a temporary
one. The value of house property has risen partly owing to the impossibility of building at present
and because of the high cost of repairs but the following list of transactions in open ground or small
gardens which took place during the year gives an indication of the present trend of land values
Property.
Date when
previously
sold.
Price.
Rs.
1363 Sale
Price.
Rs.
Open land on south edge of Manama, 4,230
square feet
1357
1 ,000
6,000
Site on Daly Road, 5,625 square feet
1362
500
2,000
Site in Fariq al-Makharka south district of
Manama, 6,721 square feet
1361
2,000
8,000
Same neighbourhood, area 33,000 square feet..
1357
367
7,000
A small garden at Sanabis with a surface well,
area 70,000 square feet
1357
1 ,300
4,000
Garden at Musallah, no artesian well, area
10,600 square feet
1358
450
1,500
New cultivation at Budeya, artesian water
but not yet productive, area 644,000
square feet
1362
12,000
29,000
Open land in Guzabia, Manama suburb, area
8,700 square feet
1360
700
3,000
The number of land cases pending in the Bahrain Courts has been greatly reduced since the
creation of two senior courts in place of one court, the change was made towards the end of 1363
and at the close of the year only 100 cases had not been dealt with. The Superintendent of the Land
Registration Department and some of the Land Department staff assisted in the reorganisation of the
Judicial Department.
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This volume is the Annual Report of the Government of Bahrain for the year 1363 AH (1944) and gives te 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 1364 and some particulars of importance which took place in Bahrain during the year. It includes text, graphs and tables. The report appears to be compiled from reports from various Government departments and officials. An Index appears on on folio 314r, followed by a General Review by Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (folios 314v-315r).
The contents are divided into the following sections and sub-sections:
- Budget 1363 (folio 316r);
- Revenue and Expenditure (folios 315v, 317r-317v);
- The Diving Industry (folio 318r-318v);
- Police and Public Security (folios 319r-320v): State Police, Special Police, Naturs, Police Pay, Duties and Administration, Jail, Promotions, Law and Order, List of Police Prosecutions in the Bahrain Courts 1363, and List of Prosecutions in the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. Courts 1363;
- Public Health (folios 321r-326r): 'Bahrain Government Public Health Report, 1363-1944' by Dr R H B Snow, Senior Medical Officer (Bahrain Government Hospital, Short Notes on the Statistics, Predominating Male-Out Patient Diseases, Predominating Police Out-Patient Diseases, Male In-Patients, Isolation Hospital, Major Operations, Minor Operations, Injections, Laboratory, X-Rays, Bahrain Government Dispensaries, and The Future of Dispensaries and Public Health), Female Statistics, report by Dr I M A Doeg, Lady Medical Officer (Out-Patients, Female In-Patients, and Notes);
- Land Registration Department, from the report of Khan Sahib Mohammed Khalil Memon, Superintendent, Land Registration Department (folio 326);
- Judicial (folio 326v): Bahrain Courts;
- Municipalities (folios 327r-328v): Manama Municipality, from the report of the Municipal Secretary, Mr Mohamed Saleh Shater, (Manama Municipality Budget 1364), Muharraq Municipality, from the report of the Municipal Secretary, Mr Ahmed Al Omran (Finance, Municipal Activities, and Muharraq Municipality Budget 1364);
- Education (folios 329-332): Report on Boys' Education in Bahrain by Mr F J Wakelin, Director of Education (School Statistics, Staff, The Secondary School, The Hostel, The Primary Schools, The Village Schools, Medical, Equipment, Extra-Mural Activities, and Grants and Donations), Government Girls' Schools, report by Mrs [Marjorie] Belgrave, Directress of Female Education, The Technical School, report by Mr G E Hitchings (Students, Staff, Finance, and General);
- Minors Department, from report by the Superintendent of the Minors' Department, Mr Mohamed Dowaicer (folios 332v-333r).
- Agriculture (folios 333r-333v);
- Passport Department, from the report of Mr Ibrahim Khalfan, Passport Officer (folios 333v-334r);
- Food Control, report by Mr G W R Smith, Director of Customs and Food Controller, Bahrain (folios 334r-335v, 338r);
- State Engineer's Department, report by Group Captain H P G Leigh, State Engineer (folios 336r-337r, 338v-340v);
- Customs, report by Mr G W R Smith, Director of Customs and Port Officer (folios 342v-344v);
- Oil Gauging, report by Mr G E Hutchings (folios 344v-345v): Oil Royalty Quantities 1944, Bahrain and Arabian Crude Oil 1944, Annual Production of Crude Oil, and Inspection of Petroleum Cargoes 1944;
- Local Industries (folio 346r): Boat Building, Weaving, and Metal Workers;
- General (folio 346v): Presentation of Sword to His Highness, Muharram Celebrations, British Officials, "Al Bahrain" [ al-Baḥrayn newspaper], Superintendent of Public Works Department, Floods, Zubara, Obituary (Haj Sulman Matar);
- Budget, 1364 (folios 347r-348r).
On folio 348r there is an inscription that reads 'The Times of India Press, Bombay'. Handwritten annotations and corrections are present (for example, folio 314v).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (37 folios)
- Arrangement
This file contains an index (folio 314r) which references pages of the report.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: Folios 312-349.
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- Author
- Belgrave, Sir Charles Dalrymple
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