'File 8/8 Agency Administration Report 1922-1930' [‎37r] (78/474)

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ways gives me a fee and the
nee and we all get a change of
imate of the above named ex-
f the fee and gifts, would place
000 rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. .
> Sultan is willing to spend even
to relieve his subjects from
is great progress, as well as a
value of modern medicine,
rst time the Mission had the
y Shukra, Aneiza, and Boreida.
.rst time a doctor ever came to
in each place our professional
•eat demand. If we could only
a few more times a permanent
srvices would soon be felt,
r, in the month of July, was in
;al of Hassa. Here the Mission
grangers, as several visits have
lere is also a good deal of travel
d Bahrein.
for its many springs and large
id we arrived in the fruit season,
ious water-melons, cantaloupes,
figs and dates.
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Hofhoof is a great center for Bedouins ; in fact
several thousand live just outside the town, and
many more come from the surrounding desert to
trade their dihn and wool for wheat, dates and
clothing.
In August we spent five days in Kateef, where we
were called to see a special case. Kateef has been
open to the Mission for years but it is some time
ago now that a medical tour was made to that
needy, malaria-ridden district.
An interesting summary of these trips shows
that we spent forty-seven days travelling, divided
as follows : on donkeys, four days; in sailboats,
eight days; on camels, thirty-five days.
The total number of treatments given in these
tours were ; clinic treatments, 9,318; Neo-salvarsan
injections, 120; and the operations performed were;
major, 165 ; minor, 361.
Always after reporting a tour, no matter how
successful it has been, we cannot help but express
our regret that during this time the home base has
to be neglected. For the Mason Memorial Hospi
tal receives patients from all parts of the Persian
Gulf and even from areas far into Persia and
Arabia. Some patients travel twenty and thirty
days to get here. It is pathetic when after such