'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf, 1945 [-1946]' [‎54r] (120/414)

Other members of the As-Subah received from Hs.1,000 to Rs.600
monthly.
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The revenue of the Customs (iividcnd from a duty of 6-| c ] q on
imports and exports) and the profits of the Landing and Transport
Company (which possesses a monopoly of the unloading of steamships)
were divided as follows:-
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lANDING- COMPANY
4 ^ Revenue Department 10 % Revenue Department.
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1 fo Education " 30 % to Share holders.
1 Jo Public Health 30 jo Education Department,
. i io Municipality 30 $ Public Health.
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Those who administer this system remain convinced that it cannot
be improved upon and have apparently not yet been confronted by the
problem of an excess of revenue over expenditure. This problem is
likely to arise during 1946 and the traditional solution, if applied,
may h ©^ meet with opposition from those who are not given a share.
(b) Medical
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(i) The Kuwait Grovernment Medical Department Hospital remained under
the supervision of the Syrian Doctor Yahya Hadidi and employed an
Egyptian lady doctor during the year. Work on the new hospital
remains suspended owing to lack of materials but over Rs. 1,000,000
are said to have been set aside for its completion. An excellent
r- feature of the organisation is the employment of a special doctor on
the health of "Dhe school-children, all of whom are examined at regular
intervals and treated if necessary. a proposal to provide one free ...
meal a day in the schools had to be dropped on grounds of expence,
' ■ i (ii) Approximately 55,000 men and 28,000 women were treated as out-
. patients and 581 as in-patients in the Mission Hospital. 843
operations of all sorts were performed. An interesting development
is that the women of Kuwait are beginning to change their attitude
-• * ' towards men doctors and have not ceased to visit the clinic since
Dr. Ruth Grouse left and Dr. Gerald Nykerk took her place in February.
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(iii) 5432 patients were treated in the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. Charitable Dispensary,
1 the most common diseases being eye and digestive.
• (iv) There was no general epidemic and the influenza which was pre- \
valent in 1944 did not recur. On the other hand typhoid and dysent
ery was much heavier during the latter half of 1945 than in previous
years, and malnutrition and tuberculosis increased considerably as a
result of the high price of food. ,
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(c) Education.
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The Education Department under the direction of the capable and
energetic Egyptian, Dr. Ahmed Sidiq Hamdi, continued to stand out as ei i,
one of the brightest facets of the state administration, and the
i, British Council representative in Cairo gave it as his opinion that
the Kuwait schools compare favourably with those of Bahrain in clean
liness and general organisation.
There are now 10 boys t and 4 girls T schools with an attendance rol3
of 1,459 and 443 respectively. Of the 56 male teachers 12 are
■ Egyptians and 44 Kuwaitis, and'of the 21 female teachers 8 are i
Egyptians, 4 Syrian, 3 Lebanese, and 6 Kuwaitis. There are a further
7 boys t schools with 300 pupils outside the town of Kuwait.
During the year the Government rented a house in Zamalek, Cairo^
and furnished it at a cost of over Rs 24,000/-. The recurring cost
will be about Rs 10,000/- per mensem and it will form a h8stel for the
Educational Mission to Egypt which has now grown to a strength of
50 boys. Kuwait Government meet all expences except for tution fees.
The ultimate object of the mission is to make Kuwait independent of
foreign teachers.
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