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'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf, 1945 [-1946]' [161r] (334/414)
The record is made up of 1 volume (203 folios). It was created in 1946-1947. 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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maiarial measures carried out by the Bahrain Government.
There still are,however, some 80,000 out-patients treated
every year. This number is' alarmingly high. There were
no major epidemics, and there was a marked decrease in
malaria, only 6,5% of the population in Manama being
affected. There was a small outbreak of small-pox in the
early part of the year but it was quickly controlled.
A Public Health and Welfare Committee composed of
the doctors of the three Manama hospitals, and the Secre
taries of the Manama and Muharraq Municipalities has been
set up, and has already done good work in tightening up
sanitary measures and improving the medical facilities
available to the public.
Sir Henry Holland, K.C.I.E., of the C.M.S., Quetta,
visited Bahrain during the latter part of the year. He
performed 35 eye operations and saw 150 patients.
(ii) Victoria Memorial Hospital .
Dr. M.L.A. Steele held charge throughout the
year
Number of out-patients treated 14,626
" « in-patients treated 27
minor operations
750
Malaria.
Total number of patients treated was 2,683
as compared with 3,806 cases for 1945.
Venereal Disease .
Gonorrhea
Soft Chancre
Syphilis
(iii) American Mission Hospital .
1945. 1946.
115
26
233
258
16
119
Dr. Paul W. Harrison held charge during the
early part of the year and was assisted by Doctors Mylrea,
Storm and George. While he was on leave from Bahrain
Dr. Storm officiated.
Out-patients treated
in-patients treated
Minor operations
Major operations
(iv) State Medical Hospital .
18,234
1,973
2,500
750
The setting up of a nursing home in the hospital
fills a long-felt need, private wards for men, and women
have also been instituted.
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A special Trachoma clinic was formed to treat
boys from the Manama School Hostel daily for six months.
This experiment has shown promising results.
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The volume contains typescript 'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the Year 1945' [1946] and typescript 'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the Year 1946' [1947]. The reports are introduced by a review of the year by the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. , Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and are divided into chapters containing individual reports on each of the agencies, consulates, and other administrative areas that made up the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. . Both reports conclude with a chapter containing 'notes on the working of quarantine on the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. '. They are signed by the local British official in charge.
The reports cover the following topics: British and non-British personnel; local affairs; local government and ruling families; transport and communications by land, sea, and air; posts and telegraphs; tribal and political matters; relations with local populations; cinemas; trade and economic matters; agriculture; finance; shipping and commerce; education; police and justice; security; military matters; propaganda; health and quarantine; statistics of temperature and rainfall; water; notable visitors; British interests; oil and oil companies; religious affairs; the pearl industry; locusts; Bedouins; date gardens; electricity; telephones; and related information.
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- 1 volume (203 folios)
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There are lists of contents on the first page of both annual reports, on folios 1 and 109.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the third folio after the front cover (the first bearing text) and terminates at 198 on the third folio before the back cover (the last bearing text). The numbers are written in pencil, are enclosed in a circle, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. Foliation anomaly: ff. 28, 28A. The individual reports that make up the combined annual reports also have their own typescript foliation sequences appearing in the top centre of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio.
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- Title
- 'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf, 1945 [-1946]'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:28v, 28ar:28av, 29r:198v, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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