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on two months recess. Dr. Thoms from Basrah held charge of the Hospital
during Dr. Dame’s absence on the mainland. The Mission doctors are always
ready to leave their Hospitals for indefinite periods and it necessary close them
to attend cases in the interior.
67 The Women’s Hospital of the American Mission treated 16,606 outdoor
patients and 308 indoor patients during 1932 94 Major and Minor operations
were performed. Mrs. (Dr.) Haenggi held charge throughout the year.
68. A serious matter is the great increase of malaria the number of cups
being four times as many as those m 1926, which lias resulted horn the bonng
of artesian wells and the breeding facilities afforded to mosquitoes im the waste
water. Measures to combat this evil are being concerted.
69 Judicial .—The total number of Civil suits instituted was 2A71 com
pared with 2,310 in 1931, and the total number of Criminal suits 44o as com
pared with 360. The total number of petitions registered during the year
amounted to 2,969 and Insolvency cases to 9.
70. Visits of Government Officials and Others.—The Hon’ble Lieut.-Colonel
Sir Hugh Biscoe, K.B.E., Political Resident in the Persian Cult, paid an official
visit to" Bahrain on the 3rd January accompanied by Mr. Baggallay of the
Teheran Legation. He again visited Bahrain for varying periods on the 20th
January, 20th March (accompanied by His Britannic Majestv’s Minister at
Teheran, Mr. Hoare), 12th April, 3rd May and 20th June. His death on the
19th July was much lamented by all the inhabitants of Bahrain, who felt they
had lost a sincere friend. When the number of these visits is considered, manv
in rough weather and some in most unpleasant heat, it will be realised how Sir
Hugh hastened his end by his devotion to duty.
71. The Hon’ble Lieut.-Colonel T. C. W. Fowle, C.B.E., Political Resident
in the Persian Gulf, also visited Bahrain on an official visit from the 5th to 12th
December, accompanied by Mr. J. Croning, M.B.E., Under Secretary.
72. Sir Philip Sassoon, Under Secretary of State for Air, passed through
Bahrain in January. He was to have spent a _ night here, but receiving an
unfavourable weather report postponed his arrival a day and only halted for an
hour or so. He was much struck by the relative cleanliness of Manamah, as
compared with Baghdad.
73. Other visitors were the Shaikh of Kuwait, wiio accompanied Sir Hugh
Biscoe in January, a somewhat embarrassing visit.
74. Monsieur Georges Cassin, French Consul at Bushire, arrived on the
19th of March and left on the 26th.
75. Mr. K. S. Twitchell, an American Prospector, believed to be in the pay
of Crane, the American bathroom millionaire, arrived from Hasa on the 7th
January.
76. The number of Indian beggars has somewhat reduced, and no disreput
able Europeans visited Bahrain during the year, thereby showing that the
Passport restrictions have borne fruit.
77. Sa’udi Arabia .—The outstanding point of interest was the Hon’ble
Lieut.-Colonel Sir Hugh Biscoe’s visit to Bin Sa’ud at Hofuf, accompanied by
the Political Agent, Captain C. G. Prior, and Lieut.-Colonel H. R. P. Dickson,
C.I.E., Political Agent, Kuwnit. The visit w T as interesting, the apparent friend
liness of Bin Sa ’ud contrasting with the sour looks of his followers. The party
left Hofuf on a characteristic note of savagery, seeing, a hand and foot of two
men mailed over the towm gate as they went out. The men had been caught
stealing camels, and ow T ed their lives to the clemency of Bin Sa’ud, Bin Jiluwi,
the redoubtable Amir of Ilasa, having wished to put them to death.
78. The Amir Mansur, a thirteen year old son of Bin Sa’ud, visited Bahrain
on the 14th January for medical treatment.
79. Muhammad-al-Tawwil rented the Hasa Customs for eleven lakhs in
January, but was unable to secure this figure and w/as obliged to ask for it to be
reduced. The Province, more especially Qatif, has been reduced to destitution
by the impositions of Bin Sa’ud, wdio has killed the goose that laid the golden
eggs with remarkable skill. But for the prevention of the emigration of women,
the bulk of the population would have fled to Bahrain long ago.
80. Abdul Aziz Qusaibi w r ent on Hajj in February, his purpose being to
gxtract sopie money from Bin Sa’ud. In this he failed, and the Qusaibis have