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'Government of Bahrain Annual Report for Year 1363 (January 1944 - December 1944)' [331r] (39/76)
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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11. The Director paid a visit to Kuwait in April (Robia al Awwal).
12. Finance.
There was a further increase in expenditure for the year 1363 of Rs. 60,000 making a total
of Rs. 2,10,000.
Estimated. Actual.
Rs. Rs.
Salaries .. .. .. .. 1,20,500 1,29,500
Hostel .. ., .. .. 12,000 12,000
Expansion and Higher Educa
tion .. .. .. .. 28,500 20,000
Equipment .. .. .. 49,000 48,500
Total Rs. .. 2,10,000- Rs. 2,10.000
The average expenditure per boy per annum in 1363 was Rs. 142-5 compared with Rs. 106-6
for 1362.
GOVERNMENT GIRLS' SCHOOLS.
[Report by Mrs. Belgrave, Directress of Female Education.)
The progress in the Girls' Schools was very definite this year. In all the Schools additional
classes were added in the Junior and Kindergarten sections and both in Hedd and Rafaa the number
of girls attending school was twice as many as during the previous year. Owing to the present
difficulties in building no new class rooms or schools were made but in Muharraq a room which was
not previously used was converted into a class room and at Hedd and Muharraq large barastis were
put up in the school compounds and used as class rooms. When the war is over and building becomes
possible all the schools will require enlarging as in spite of temporary expedients a number of girls
who wanted to attend the schools were turned away because there was no room and not enough
teachers to cope with still more classes.
Almost all the girls who took their school leaving certificates at the end of the term were
taken on as teachers but more teachers than emerge from the schools are required to provide for the
increasing demand for education. A new school was opened in Manama in the Shia quarter close
to the Municipal Garden. The Government rented from the Minors' Department a large Arab
style house which was wakf for the descendants of Abdu Ali bin Rajab, at one time a leading pearl
merchant. Repairs and alterations were carried out and the building was made into an excellent
school with a number of light airy class rooms. The new school opened two months after the beginning
of term and in a very short time over two hundred girls were attending it, a large percentage of them
were Bahama, many of them from the leading Shia families who in the past have been rather backward
in sending their girls to school.
The teaching staff was increased during the year. Mrs. Sawaf, who was for several years
the Headmistress of the Muharraq school, was made Inspectress of Girls' Schools ; three new Syrian
teachers were obtained from Syria and ten new local teachers were engaged bringing the number
of the teaching staff up to 50. In Manama and Muharraq schools Syrian teachers were appointed as
headmistresses and second mistresses but the headmistress of the new Manama school was a Bahrain
girl who was trained at British Syrian Training College in Beyrout. Owing to the difficulties over
travelling under war conditions no Bahrain girls can be sent to Syria to study teaching at present
but it is hoped that when the war is over more Bahrain girls will be able to go for training abroad.
There used to be a very great difference in the standard of the various schools. A great effort
was made this term to bring all the schools as far as possible up to the same standard so that girls
moving from one place to another could enter the same classes in any of the Government schools.
It is the customs in Bahrain for families who can afford to do so to move from Muharraq to Manama
in the summer and the children attend the schools in whichever town they are living.
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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).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (37 folios)
- Arrangement
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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