'File 8/8 Agency Administration Report 1922-1930' [‎38r] (80/474)

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to closed doors. We have long
Bahrein a two-doctor hospital,
al Conference recognized this in
rst time. In due time may this
ed in practice.
touring is the weekly trips we
island. For about four months
ter of the larger towns and vil-
our Ford, fitted up as a travelling
number of patients treated by
i not large, but we do make
some of the most backward part
and have succeeded in inducing
come to the hospital,
igue broke out in Bahrein, the
e had for ten years, and it hit
of Moharrek was particularly
re it broke out later than in
hen it began it was terrific,
ere wiped out. Dead rats and
1 pigeons were piled on rubbish
>ts. A moderate estimate would
by about 5,000, or one in every
pulation. During the epidemic
hospital was of course very
rere very busy visiting the
stricken and inoculating when vaccine was
available.
During the last three months of the year the
V work in the hospital was very heavy. A very
large number of patients have been coming from
the hinterland of Muscat. At one time twenty
patients came together; fourteen of whom were
operative cases. Even before they came every
bed in the hospital was occupied and there were
several cases waiting for operations, so you can
imagine what sort of congestion we frequently
have to put up with. The hospital has outgiown
-V its limited quarters, for we have adequate space
for only thirty patients and yet we frequently have
to accommodate as many as sixty.
This year, as other years, the hospital has
furnished the evangelistic men with a real field for
work. On Sunday mornings the chapel is nearly
always filled with patients, and they are an appre
ciative and attentive audience. The fact that so
many of them are strangers here no doubt gives
them greater courage and freedom to attend. Not
infrequently they discuss parts of the sermon
among themselves, and many read portions of
Scripture with the colporteur or among themselves.
It is encouraging to hear them ask for Persian