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'Government of Bahrain Annual Report for Year 1362 (January 1943 - December 1943)' [296v] (42/72)
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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Over 12 ooo passengers landed in Bahrain during the year ; 10,647 came by launches and
dhows, 1,536 in steamers and 435 by air, this does not include service passengers. Particulars of
all persons leaving or arriving are registered by the Department.
Destitute Persians continued to be landed on the coast from sailing boats which usually
succeeded in escaping capture. During the year 41 persons were caught while landing and were sent
back to their places of origin. In the summer there was a round up of beggars and a number of them,
who had entered Bahrain illegally, were repatriated.
Eighteen persons, mostly Persians, became naturalized Bahrain subjects. A large proportion
of the leading Persian merchants and shopkeepers have now adopted Bahrain nationality. The
condition under which Bahrain nationality is granted includes not less than ten years' residence in the
country and the ownership of a house or place of business.
FOOD CONTROL.
The problem of providing suitable and sufficient food for the people of Bahrain, arranging its
distribution and combating profiteering, hoarding and unjustified increases in prices became more
difficult during the year under review. Conditions of starvation and malnutrition were apparent,
especially in some of the villages, during the last quarter of 1942 ; these conditions seemed to improve
early in 1943 but again deteriorated between April and June ; from June till December conditions
steadily improved till by the end of the year scarcely any malnutrition cases were being seen in the
hospitals. Two reasons contributing towards the improvement were the increased amount of employ
ment in Bahrain and more satisfactory arrangements for the sale and distribution of food.
During the year rice ceased to be available in. Bahrain as a ration though till the end of the year a
little could be bought in the black market at a very high price. Stocks of rice though carefully rationed
and augmented by 200 tons which were purchased from Dubai were exhausted by end of October. At
the beginning of the year the ration of an adult was 20 lbs. of cereals which included 8 lbs. of rice, the
rice ration was reduced in March to 4 lbs. and in September to 2 lbs. In October it ceased altogether.
It was found that wheat was the only cereal which could be regarded as a substitute for rice and each
reduction in the rice ration was followed by an increase in the wheat ration until eventually wheat
entirely superseded rice. The monthly ration of 20 lbs. of cereals was maintained throughout the year.
It is not a generous ration in a country where few alternate foods exist; in large households the ration
appears to be sufficient but in a family of two or three it is difficult to exist on the ration. Towards the
end of the year Bahrain was supplied with some barley which was sold to the public. It was extremely
unpopular and quite useless to certain communities as it could only be eaten in the form of flour and
many people had neither the means of milling it nor were they able to bake bread. Rationing in
Bahrain is complicated by the great difference in the manner of living in the towns and in the villages.
The townspeople, especially the foreigners, eat bread, the villagers rarely eat bread and do not possess
ovens or bakeries. All communities however eat crushed wheat which can be made into a form of
porridge and mixed with date juice or fish or meat when it is available.
During the year there was a serious increase in bacillary dysentery. In the Government
hospital twice as many cases were seen in 1362 as in 1361. 1 here is no reason to believe that infantile
mortality increased very greatly though it is not possible to check the figures as registration of births
and deaths has not yet been enforced in Bahrain. I he public ascribed all illnesses entirely to the
fact that rice was unobtainable, while this opinion was not justifiable there seems no doubt that the
wheat diet was partly responsible for the dysentery by irritating an alimentary canal already latent
with this infection and thus exacerbated by the disease.
The following shows the cereal ration at the beginning and at the end of the year
Muharram (January 1943). Dul Haj (December 1943)-
8 lbs. rice 4 |b s - fl our
6 lbs. flour 4 Js. barley
6 lbs. wheat 12 lh *. wheat
20 lbs.
20 lbs.
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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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- Belgrave, Sir Charles Dalrymple
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