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'Government of Bahrain Annual Report for Year 1363 (January 1944 - December 1944)' [‎324v] (26/76)

The record is made up of 1 volume (37 folios). It was created in 1945. 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 FUTURE OF DISPENSARIES AND PUBLIC HEALTH.
Muharraq has always been the main bastion. The resident doctor there has a turnover
of out-patients often exceeding half those treated in Manama. Apart from this, other out-dispensaries
are with difficulty maintained, owing to lack of staff and consistently running transport. The main
criticism in the medical work in Bahrain made by doctors and His Highness Shaikh Saliman is, that
it is too much centralised in Manama, to the detriment of outside dispensaries and public health
measures. This is true. Preventive medicine and out-clinics should be run at an equally high
level as the Hospital work. Its aim is as important. Until more key staff are forthcoming however,
this has been largely postponed. But certain efforts have been made, more especially over anti-
malaria.
Public health administration came into being in England largely at the beginning of the last
century, and again made enormous strides after the Great War. Maternity, infant welfare, and
school medical work are now perhaps its more important branches, specialised to a high degree •
Milk and water supplies are largely controlled. Bad sanitation and its diseases Typhoid, Dysentery,
and Cholera, are now almost unknown. All infectious diseases are notifiable. Tuberculosis is sought
out at the source by house to house visits. Its treatment is effected in sanatoria and rehabilitation
centres. Illegitimate children, the blind and deformed, the poor and the aged, are all accounted
for in special homes and centres.
In Bahrain, as soon after the war as possible, the beginnings of similar measures should be
made and expanded year by year. A town water supply should be first laid down. Side by side
with that, improved sanitation and an expert to supervise it. Indiscriminate squatting would become
a legal offence, and disposal of city refuse rendered innocuous and better controlled.
All Bahrain Government schools should be regularly inspected and treated by a medical staff
trained for this alone. Maternity, infant welfare, and health visiting, would become a special ever
expanding department. These two medical bodies alone would radically change the health and
outlook of the next generation of Bahrain.
Certain institutions to be set up, now badly needed, would come into force for tuberculosis,
lepers, and lunatics.
Lastly, the villages. Travelling dispensaries are needed to operate from certain main centres
probably Manama, Muharraq, and Rifa'a. His Highness has himself suggested that a resident
doctor be placed in Rifa a to form a centre there, and to be responsible for visiting the main villages
south, east and west—such as, Sitra, Karazkan, Zillag, Ali and Bori.
With the achievement of all these measures, a valuable check on the background and treatment
of all future in-patients in the hospital would be attained, and particularly on observing their after-
treatment when they return to their homes. And from thenceforth, slowly but surely, the cause
of disease, the disease itself, and the dangers of its recurrence, would be reduced to the minimum
FEMALE STATISTICS 1363.
Report hy Dr. I. M. A. Doeg, Lady Medical Officer.
Out-Patients. New Cases. Return Cases.
Hospital .. .. ,. .. 6,467 7.979
Dispensaries 8,489 13,637
Total.
14,446
22,126
36,572

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This volume is the Annual Report of the Government of Bahrain for the year 1363 AH (1944) 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 1364 and some particulars of importance which took place in Bahrain during the year. It includes text, graphs and tables. The report appears to be compiled from reports from various Government departments and officials. An Index appears on on folio 314r, followed by a General Review by Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (folios 314v-315r).

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

  • Budget 1363 (folio 316r);
  • Revenue and Expenditure (folios 315v, 317r-317v);
  • The Diving Industry (folio 318r-318v);
  • Police and Public Security (folios 319r-320v): State Police, Special Police, Naturs, Police Pay, Duties and Administration, Jail, Promotions, Law and Order, List of Police Prosecutions in the Bahrain Courts 1363, and List of Prosecutions in the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. Courts 1363;
  • Public Health (folios 321r-326r): 'Bahrain Government Public Health Report, 1363-1944' by Dr R H B Snow, Senior Medical Officer (Bahrain Government Hospital, Short Notes on the Statistics, Predominating Male-Out Patient Diseases, Predominating Police Out-Patient Diseases, Male In-Patients, Isolation Hospital, Major Operations, Minor Operations, Injections, Laboratory, X-Rays, Bahrain Government Dispensaries, and The Future of Dispensaries and Public Health), Female Statistics, report by Dr I M A Doeg, Lady Medical Officer (Out-Patients, Female In-Patients, and Notes);
  • Land Registration Department, from the report of Khan Sahib Mohammed Khalil Memon, Superintendent, Land Registration Department (folio 326);
  • Judicial (folio 326v): Bahrain Courts;
  • Municipalities (folios 327r-328v): Manama Municipality, from the report of the Municipal Secretary, Mr Mohamed Saleh Shater, (Manama Municipality Budget 1364), Muharraq Municipality, from the report of the Municipal Secretary, Mr Ahmed Al Omran (Finance, Municipal Activities, and Muharraq Municipality Budget 1364);
  • Education (folios 329-332): Report on Boys' Education in Bahrain by Mr F J Wakelin, Director of Education (School Statistics, Staff, The Secondary School, The Hostel, The Primary Schools, The Village Schools, Medical, Equipment, Extra-Mural Activities, and Grants and Donations), Government Girls' Schools, report by Mrs [Marjorie] Belgrave, Directress of Female Education, The Technical School, report by Mr G E Hitchings (Students, Staff, Finance, and General);
  • Minors Department, from report by the Superintendent of the Minors' Department, Mr Mohamed Dowaicer (folios 332v-333r).
  • Agriculture (folios 333r-333v);
  • Passport Department, from the report of Mr Ibrahim Khalfan, Passport Officer (folios 333v-334r);
  • Food Control, report by Mr G W R Smith, Director of Customs and Food Controller, Bahrain (folios 334r-335v, 338r);
  • State Engineer's Department, report by Group Captain H P G Leigh, State Engineer (folios 336r-337r, 338v-340v);
  • Customs, report by Mr G W R Smith, Director of Customs and Port Officer (folios 342v-344v);
  • Oil Gauging, report by Mr G E Hutchings (folios 344v-345v): Oil Royalty Quantities 1944, Bahrain and Arabian Crude Oil 1944, Annual Production of Crude Oil, and Inspection of Petroleum Cargoes 1944;
  • Local Industries (folio 346r): Boat Building, Weaving, and Metal Workers;
  • General (folio 346v): Presentation of Sword to His Highness, Muharram Celebrations, British Officials, "Al Bahrain" [ al-Baḥrayn newspaper], Superintendent of Public Works Department, Floods, Zubara, Obituary (Haj Sulman Matar);
  • Budget, 1364 (folios 347r-348r).

On folio 348r there is an inscription that reads 'The Times of India Press, Bombay'. Handwritten annotations and corrections are present (for example, folio 314v).

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1 volume (37 folios)
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This file contains an index (folio 314r) which references pages of the report.

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Foliation: Folios 312-349.

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