'File 8/8 Annual Administration Report of the Bahrain Agency' [‎64r] (127/598)

ANNUAL REPORT OF itoDXOAL STORK IN BAHRAIN
for 1936.
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iis wa look back over tha p&at yoar we find that we nave a great
deal to thank our heavenly Father for. Our staff has been Increased
by several members and our equipment considerably augmented. In 1935
•tfe concluded our report by stating our great need for a lady doctor
to be in charge of women's medical work, for a nurse to take Miss
^odemool’s (Mrs. Rodstrom ) place, and for an X-Rey machine. With the
arrival of Dr. Eatner Bamy in April and Miss Jennie Bast in March
as wellas the installation of a small and efficient G.E. X- ray in a
three-room building annexed to the Rosentnal row we have had our req
uests answered in a very full measure, we have been greatly heartened
by the return of Dr. Barn/ to the mission field. Her quiet, efficient
and sympathetic manner of treating her patients has already won for
her and the mission many new friends. Miss Bast { since January first
she has become Mrs. Alonzo Bell) served cheerfully and conscientiously
for eight months as nursing matron of the European Nursing Home.
Besides supervising the care of over two hundred in-patients and
two thousand out-patients in the nursing home she often went to the homes
of bed-ridden patients nursing them personally and lending nurse's
assistance to tne doctors in both men's and women's hospitals whenever
requested.
On tte last day of larch Dr. Bto&rn was given a right royal welcome
as he returned to Bahrain after having been away, touring entirely
around the penninaula of Arabia, for ten months. He was the first
Christian missionary to visit the districts of aair, Hadramaut, and
Dhufar. In these districts he successfully treated some of the chiefs
as well as multitudes of the populace and ^as^pr^aseo^T^e^end the
time of his stay. Becaude of his tour, these areas, which have until
recently been entirely closed to missionary endeavor, should be more
easily entered by medical missionaries. It is our hope and prayer
that, through the Interest raised In America and England by his tour,
some missionaries will be sent out to occupy those areas. In the
Interests ot medical science. Dr. Storm discovered several , hitaerto
unknown centers of indigenous leprosy. The International neprosy
association hopes to discover where are the indigenous centers of
leprosy dissemination so that they can plan an effective pipeventative
attack against t ie dread disease by treating and quarenting? cases in
the centers and taereby preventing their further spread to^areas where
the disease is either unknown or uncommon.
Bes idoa i.our taerj |m lwo ..^do uo and 0110 to
Qator. Dr. Thoms also went to Rjrad right after Chrletoae. Banrain
stands at the gateway to the Pirate Coast, Nejd and her dependencies.
One Doctor alone in Bahrain cannot tour, ie hope the Mission and
the church at home will not fail to realize the importance of touring
and the necessity of an adequate staff to permit the same.
with deep regret we said good-bye to Dr. and Mrs. Dame on May 2nd,
when they took the boat on tneir homeward journey, after nine busy
years of service on the field since their last furlough, they more
than deserved a rest, and we were glad for their sake that taey could
be beyond the beck and call of the sick and needy of Arabia for a time.
However every member of the staff from the missionaries to the sweepers
felt the departure of our "Chief very keenly. For the moment it seemed
to us that without Dr. Dame in charge, the fine medical plant and wide
refutation which he had so large a part In creating for our mission nere
would inevitibly suffer irreparable loss.