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'Government of Bahrain Annual Report for Year 1362 (January 1943 - December 1943)' [286r] (21/72)
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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17
Venereal Disease.
972 fresh patients were seen and 237 cases of the infectious type were admitted, 113 were
Syphilis, and 124 Gonorrhoea, 1819 injections of N.A.B. and Bismuth were given and several thousands
of " 693
Opthalmia.
This is our most important work, especially in the schools; 263 patients (22%) were admitted,
and 292 operations performed. The total of new cases seen all over Bahrain was 3594, 12-5% of all
patients. Trachoma with all its sequelae accounted for 2016 of these cases.
Dysentery.
Endemic amoebic dysentery showed its usual high figure especially during the fly seasons of
early summer and late autumn. This year, however, bacillary dysentery cases were much more
numerous and almost an epidemic broke out in November. An added factor appeared to be the
change over to the wheat and barley diet. It is thought that a certain amount of gut inflammation
was produced lighting up a latent dysentery. Many of the patients were old men suffering also from
malnutrition. In Manama 492 cases were seen compared to 234 last year.
The people do not yet realise how flies disseminate this disease so a small anti-fly campaign
was started in the autumn using fly traps in the hospital, the fort, the markets and the Shaikh's Palace
at Rafa. A quarter mile area around the hospital was flycontrolled using phenyle and oil, with
exceedingly beneficial results.
Malaria.
Figures showed a slight increase and were 10-5% over the whole year in Manama compared
to 10% in 1942 : and 18% during the worst May—June period compared to 16% in 1942. Only
routine work, on which 100 men were employed, was attempted as lack of transport affected the
supervision and distribution of oil. Garden channels, house wells and drinking pots proved the most
fruitful sources of breeding. About half a million channels and pits were oiled and fish applied and
re-applied to eleven thousand wells. The gardens in the Zinj area are now at last under control.
A meeting of the General Anti-Malaria Committee, under the chairmanship of Shaikh Mohamed bin
Essa, took place at the end of the year. Questions of quinine supply, house well control and concen
tration of the work in the towns, were discussed. Present supplies of quinine are sufficient for 1944.
but the chief anti-malaria aids were again stressed namely, the co-operation of house owners in making
weekly inspections of their own water sources.
Malnutritional Complications.
This entity was divided into :—
Cured. Not cured. Died.
11
Starvation .. Total 37. 16 10
Malnutrition Oedema Total 33. 8 15
10
These figures only represent the male inpatients of one hospital in the Island. Total statistics
are not known as there is not yet any registration of births and deaths in Bahrain but in some villages
it was reported later that large numbers of persons died of starvation, a case in point was the small
village of Dair on Muharraq Island where it was said that over fifty people died within a short period.
The treatment of these cases was bafflingly difficult. A terrible apathy predominated, and
mental persuasion to will these people to live was exerted. A good mixed diet with milk and stimulants
and sometimes Vitamin B only gave very slow results. Those not cured were relieved only for the
time being, fortunately most of them were old men. As already mentioned this condition was quickly
righted and by the end of the hot weather it had passed away.
The Services.
Outpatients are now attended to in the camps of the Forces concerned, at Muharraq, Jufair
Naval Base, and the Army camp near Awali. Only the more serious cases are now dealt with at the
Government Hospital. During the year 388 in-patients were admitted, and 140 of these were in the
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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).
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- 1 volume (35 folios)
- Arrangement
This file contains an index (folio 278r) which references pages of the report.
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Foliation: Folios 276-311.
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- Belgrave, Sir Charles Dalrymple
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