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'Government of Bahrain Annual Report for Year 1359 (February 1940 - February 1941)' [‎176r] (23/74)

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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(b) Dispensaries.
'K,
The above list of details explains itself.
Eye disease ag-ain is the most prevalent disease.
Malaria is of a higher incidence in Muharraq as compared to Manama. It is hoped that
this will be lowered next year. The Sakhir malaria figures are highest of all proportionately,
but the figures may not be accurate there, because a compounder runs the dispensary. Venereal
disease is most prevalent in Suk Al-Khamis and Sitra. Minor operations are usually for boils,
abscesses, and teeth ; and quinine and emetine the commonest injections given.
Dr. Lakra was in-charge of Suk Al-Khamis up to November, when he took over from Dr.
Bhandarkar at Muharraq. This dispensary had had a set back in the summer because of Dr.
Bhandarkar's holiday. It was visited from Manama weekly, and run by orderlies who administered
only the simplest forms of treatment. Abdul Majid, the compounder to H. H. The Shaikh of
Bahrain, has held small daily clinics in Sakhir throughout most of the year.
I he other dispensaries now come under a regular visiting scheme by doctors from Manama,
with the exception of Karazakhan, which has been closed. Sitra, Badaya, and Rifa'a were visited
three times weekly in the hot weather instead of once a week. After a short hiatus during
Ramadan the scheme was renewed, but reduced to twice weekly because of the increase of work
in Manama. The clinics are held in the natur posts of Budaya and Sitra and in Sheikh Ali bin
Ahmad's majlis In Rifa'a. The Budaya patients are not many, and some of them come from
Bani Jamra and Draz. In Rifa'a it is the school children who attend well and very regularly,
Sitra has proved the most promising field of work. Anti-malaria work is also being done there,
and this has been appreciated and has attracted patients to the clinic, Fortv to fifty are verv
often seen and their complaints arc various, chiefly eye disease, coughs and colds, worms,
rheumatism and malaria. The latter is not common, but most malaria patients are too weak
or ill to come, according to report. Round worms are always complained of here, due to faulty
methods of preparing their fish for eating. Patients come from all the six villages and beyond,
Jidah has been a difficult place to visit regularly because of the journey. It is usually now
seen once a month. Serious complaints are rare, because the climate is good, and dryer. Lately
several cases of dysentery were brought over to the Hospital. These were nearly all amoebic
and it is thought that the eating ot a certain green herb on the island, which grows in the winter
months, was responsible for inciting an already chronic latent dysentery. The prisoners there
usualK number between twelve and eighteen. 1 heir quarters have been enlarged and are adequate
and healthy.
Bahrain Government Police
r
Patients 1359 (1941)
I- 1 otal No, of out-patients attending the daily sick parade
II, 1 otal No, of in-patients in Police Hospital up to the time of closure 14-6-40.
Grand Total ,,,
Summary of the chief diseases rendering them unfit for duty,—
5.^2
45
5.2o;
Malaria
Eye Affections,—
Trachoma ]
Conjunctivitis '
Others )
Syhphilis
(ionorrhoea
Dysentery (amoebic)
Mumps
235
60
18
16
4
3
Total ... 336
Note. The above police paiieuts include all ihe personnel of the Fort, and prisoners.

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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)
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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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