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'Government of Bahrain Annual Report for Year 1359 (February 1940 - February 1941)' [‎175v] (22/74)

The record is made up of 1 volume (36 folios). It was created in 1941. 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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16
THE OUT-PATIENTS. ;
(a) Government Hospital.
A brief list shows the main features.
1. Eye-Disease is a scourge which is so endemic and tenacious that the people themselves
have become dulled to the potency of its terrible complications, which have led to so much total
blindness. Trachoma is mainly responsible for this, and 70 per cent of all opthalmia is due to it.
20 per cent of all out-patients come because of bad eyes, and fortunately they are very agreeable
to long courses of treatment.
2. Malaria. —The numbers attending are considerably less. While early yet to give reliable
statistics, the figures already show a marked decrease in Manama. The peak months were again
May and June.
3. Venereal Disease. —All stages are seen, but the nervous tertiary forms are uncommon.
Secondary syphilis, showing widespread skin and throat ulcers, is seen frequently, especially in
the villages, and is extremely infectious. Good results are hoped for from the Isolation Hospital,
where follow up work after cure is being inaugurated.
4. Dysentery. —This is nearly all due to the Entamoeba Histolytica, and is most common
in the spring and autumn months, when it almost reaches epidemic form. To enforce strict rules
for the carrying out of improved town sanitarv methods is the only way to eradicate this disease.
5. Asthma. —This is a serious bronchial complaint. Diet and humidity both play a part in
causing it. When once it establishes a hold in a patient it is practically impossible to cure.
Temporary relief for acute attacks can be achieved most readily, but only too soon a recurrence
of symptoms occurs.
6. Mumps reached minor epidemic form in may and June this year. It is chiefly in children,
though adults become also attacked. Its ready spread is due to lack of segregation owing to
people not treating this disease seriously,
7. Other Diseases. —Rheumatic disease in all its forms is common, especially arthritis and
myositis. Rheumatic fever is only occasionally seen. Dermatitis of the scalp is frequently found
in the schools, and whooping cough, Phthysis (pulmonary tuberculosis) has not been recorded
much. The few cases seen have been usually severe, and have died shortly after. More detailed
examinations will certainly reveal many more, as it is more common than it appears to be.
Bahrain Government Male Dispensaries and Clinics.
1359 (1940).
No. of
Total No,
Minor
Name of Place.
Clinics.
Patients.
Operations,
Injections.
•1.
Muharraq
Daily
8,581
283
222
2.
Suq Al-Khamis
Daily
3.834
34
22
3-
Hidd
Daily
3.585
10
5
4-
Sakhir
Daily
1,870
67
67
5-
Sitra
61
1 . 0 33
13
23
6.
Baidaya
64
99 1
25
2 5
7*
Rifa'a
31
847
8
8
8,
Karazakhan
10
78
9-
Jiddah
10
i 3 o


Totals
20,949
440
372
Total No, vaccination = 167
* Seven months only because of Dr, Bhandarkar's leave of absence on holiday
Certain Dispensary Statistics.
No. of
New Patients.
5.752
2,258
1,196
544
500
297
Name of Place.
Muharraq
Suk Al-Khamis
Sakhir
Sitra
Baidaya
Rifa'a
Totals
io.547
Eye Diseases.
Malaria,
V.D.
Others,
894
463
81
4.071
295
I 99
64
I.5 11
98
219
6
876
I o3
54
374
100
65
2
333
99
27
2
169
1.589
1 .024
168
7.334

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This volume is the Annual Report of the Government of Bahrain for the year 1359 AH (1940-1941) 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 1360 and some particulars of importance which took place in Bahrain during the year. It includes text, photographic images, and tables, and architectural plans. The report appears to be compiled from reports from various Government departments and officials. An index appears on folio 167r, followed by a General Review by Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, dated May 1941 (folio 168r).

The contents are divided into the following sections and sub-sections:

  • Budget 1359 (folio 169r);
  • Summary of Revenue and Expenditure 1357 (folio 170r);
  • Statement of Revenue and Expenditure 1357 (folio 170v);
  • Note on Revenue 1357 (folio 172r);
  • Note on Expenditure 1357 (folios 172r-172v): Special Public Works;
  • The Pearl Industry (folios 172v-173r);
  • Police and Public Security (folios 173r-175r): Strength, State Police (Recruitment, Routine, Prisoners, Promotions and Appointments), Naturs, Crime, and General;
  • Public Health (folios 175r-181v): Report on the work of the Medical Department, male side, by Dr R H B Snow, State Medical Officer (Summary of Statistics of Male Patients of the Bahrain Government Hospital and Dispensaries, The Out-Patients (Government Hospital, Dispensaries), Bahrain Government Police (The Police Clinic), The Inpatients (Major Operations, Minor Operations), School Medical Examinations, Review of the Anti-Malarial Work) and Women's Section, report by Dr M M McDowall (The Women's Hospital, Health of School Girls);
  • Land Department (folios 181v-183r);
  • Judicial (folios 183r-183v): The Bahrain Court, The Bahrain Small Court, Sunni Shara [Sharia] Court, Shia Shara Court, Majlis Tijara [Majlis Tijārah], Shia Appeal Court, and High Appeal Court;
  • Municipalities (folios 183v-184r);
  • Shia Wakf [Waqf] Department (folios 184r);
  • Education (folios 184r-185v): Report by Mr C R L Adrian Vallance, Director of Education;
  • Female Education (folio 185v);
  • Minors Department (folio 185v);
  • Agriculture (folio 186r);
  • Passport Department (folio 186r);
  • Bahrain Nationality (folio 186v);
  • Census of Bahrain (folios 186v-188r);
  • General (folio 190r): Floods, Death of Shaikh Jasim and Haj Abu Ali bin Rejab [Ḥajj Abū ‘Alī Rajab], Bahrain Broadcasting Station, Visit of H.R.H. the Amir Sa'ud, Shaikh Mohamed bin Isa Alkhalifah [Muḥammad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah] in Malta, Air Attack on Bahrain, and Papal Insignia bestowed on His Highness Shaikh Hamad [Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah];
  • Electric Department (folios 190v-191r): Electricity Department (Wiring Contracts, Temporary Wiring, Air Conditioning), Government Telephone Department, Transport Department, Fire Section, Traffic Section, Oil Royalty and other Gauging, and General (Anti-Malaria Campaign, Electricity Charges, Financial Position, Prospects for 1360);
  • Statement of Energy Sold, etc. (folio 192r);
  • Profit and Loss Account (folio 193r);
  • Customs Department, report by Mr C C L de Grenier, Director of Customs and Port Officer (folios 194r-198r);
  • Budget 1360 (folios 199r-200r).

Illustrations appear on four folios and they are labelled as follows:

  • Folio 171: 'Lay-out of Government Hospital Buildings, Manama';
  • Folio 174: 'The State Police on parade salute His Highness the Ruler, on the occasion of his Accession Anniversary';
  • Folio 182: 'March past a mounted section of His Highness’ state police';
  • Folio 189: 'Roads flooded during unusually heavy winter rains'.

On the front cover there is an inscription that reads 'Printed at the Times Press, Basrah' (folio 165r), and on folio 166r there is a label that reads 'Owing to reasons with the war the printing of this report was delayed for many months'. Handwritten annotations and corrections are present (for example, folios 167r and 195v).

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1 volume (36 folios)
Arrangement

This file contains an index (folio 167r) which references pages of the report.

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Foliation: Folios 165-201.

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English in Latin script
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