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'Government of Bahrain Annual Report for Year 1362 (January 1943 - December 1943)' [‎295r] (39/72)

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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The Technical School.
{By M r. G. E. H utchings, Principal).
Students.
The number of students in training in the Technical School has varied only slightly since the
beginning of the re-organisation in 1360. During the greater part of 1362 the number remained
steadily at 55. W hen the scheme was first outlined four years ago a school of some 150 to 200 boys
was visualised, but wartime restrictions on building, equipment and staffing have precluded any such
expansion. Moreover, an increase in the number of pupils must depend to a great extent on the
expansion of the Primary Schools, and although these have in recent years greatly increased the
capacity of their junior classes they cannot immediately release a larger number of well qualified
boys of the age of 13 or 14.
The standard of education and intelligence of boys applying for admission to the Technical
School shows gradual improvement each year. The improvement is particularly marked in the
case of a group of 21 younger boys, aged 13 to 14. admitted last summer, who now constitute
a new reparatory Class.' It is intended that these younger pupils shall carry out a year of general
education and elementary workshop practice before entering upon the normal two-year course of trade
training. The good progress made by this class suggests that the lower age of admission and the
lengthening of the school course to 3 or 4 years should become the regular practice.
Popular prejudice tends to impede the recruitment of a satisfactory type of boy for technical
training, and this factor also must be reckoned with when the time comes to increase the size of the
school. 1 he most able boys in the Primary Schools aim at professional, clerical, or business careers.
They regard mechanical trades as the province of their social and intellectual inferiors. Certainly.
working-class life in Bahrain provides abundant evidence in support of this view, and there is nothing
to suggest that a youth who starts his career in a workshop will ever rise to a position of importance.
The facts are so well known to parents and teachers that propaganda in favour of technical education
would bs quite futile.
At midsummer 5 students from the Mechanical and 4 from the Woodwork Departments, having
completed a full course at the School, entered apprenticeship with the Bahrain Petroleum Company
A number of others have been accepted by the Company in various minor occupations. Abnormal
pressure of work in all the Company's Departments has not favoured the development of a satisfactory
apprentice training scheme linked with the work of the Technical School. At the present time ap
prentices have only limited opportunities of gaining experience in the highly skilled tasks because
equipment and instructors cannot be spared for work which is not rapidly productive. The existence
of elaborate training schemes set up in connection with vital war industries in Britain and
merica suggests that the Oil Industry has been unfortunate over this important factor in
its economy.
Four students holding scholarships from the Kuwait Oil Company left the school in June. A
fifth member of this group has returned for further study. As in previous years many of the boys
eaving the Technical School have entered employment which is not directly related to their school
training. This is partly due to the arrest of local industrial development during the war. Certain
activities which have recently increased employment generally in Bahrain have not offered such scope
lor trainees in skilled trades.
The majority of the Technical School pupils live in poor circumstances. Their condition is
somewhat relieved by the small maintenance allowance which it has been felt desirable to continue
and in addition a proportion of the boys have been given clothing. Boys whose homes are in the
distant villages and a few others (11 in all at the end of year) have resided in the Education Depart-
ment's Hostel, a very satisfactory arrangement pending the establishment of a boarding house on the
echmcal School site. The discipline and welfare of the boys in the School has become largely the
concern of one of the Syrian teachers, who is also responsible for organised games. The value of his
work is revealed in the pleasant atmosphere of the School and the confidence of the boys.

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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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English in Latin script
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