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on two months recess. Dr. Thoms from Basrah held charge of the HostT 1
'during Dr. Dame’s absence on the mainland. The Mission doctors are alwav. 1
ready to leave their Hospitals for indefinite periods and if necessary close them
to attend cases in the interior.
67. The Women’s Hospital of the American Mission treated 16,606 outdoor
patients and 308 indoor patients during 1932. 94 Major and Minor operations
were performed. Mrs. (Dr.) Haenggi held charge throughout the year.
68. A serious matter is the great increase of malaria, the number of cas~s
being four times as many as those in 1926, which has resulted from the boriim
of artesian wells and the breeding facilities afforded to mosquitoes in the waste
water. Measures to combat this evil are being concerted.
69. Judicial .—The total number of Civil suits instituted was 2.471 com
pared with 2,310 in 1931, and the total number of Criminal suits 445 as conn
pared with 360. The total number of petitions registered during the year
amounted to 2,969 and Insolvency cases to 9.
70. Visits of Government Officials and Others .—The Hon’ble Lieut.-Colonel
Sir Hugh Biscoe, K.B.E., 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , paid an official
visit to Bahrain on the 3rd January accompanied by Mr. Baggallav of the
Teheran Legation. He again visited Bahrain for varying periods on the 20th
January, 20th March (accompanied by His Britannic Majesty’s Minister at
Teheran, Mr. Hoare), 12th April, 3rd May and 20th June. His death on the
19th July was much lamented by all the*inhahitants of Bahraiy, who felt they
had lost a sincere friend. When the number of these visits is considered, manv
in rough weather and some in most unpleasant heat, it will be realised how Sir
Hugh hastened his end by his devotion to duty.
71. The Hon’ble Lieut.-Colonel T. C. W. Fowle, C.B.E., 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.
in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , also visited Bahrain on an official visit from the 5th to 12th
December, accompanied by Mr. J. Croning, M.B.E., Under Secretary.
72. Sir Philip Sassoon, Under Secretary of State for Air, passed through
Bahrain in January. He was to have spent a night here, but receiving an
unfavourable weather report postponed his arrival a dav and only halted for an
hour or so. He was much struck by the relative cleanliness of Manamah as
compared with Baghdad.
73. Other visitors were the Shaikh of Kuwait, who accompanied Sir Hugh
Biscoe m January, a somewhat embarrassing visit.
. ^4. Monsieur Georges Cassin, French Consul at Bushire, arrived on the
19th of March and left on the 26th.
Mi. K. S. Twitched, an American Prospector, believed to be in the pay
ol T rane, the American bathroom millionaire, arrived from Hasa on the 7th
J anuary.
w. me number ol Indian beggars has somewhat reduced, and no disreput
able Europeans visited Bahrain during the year, thereby showing that the
Passport restrictions have borne fruit.
T - J 7 - Arufeim—The outstanding point of interest w^as the Hon’ble
ll p i v 0ll | e A k 11 Mngh Biscoe’s visit to Bin Sa’ud at Hofuf, accompanied bv
i t F p 1 ! v 9 a & tam • C - G - Pri ? r ! aild Bieut.-Colonel H. R. P. Dickson,
p 1, 1C q > ’ -Kuwait. The visit was interesting, the apparent friend-
pH PTnJ r 111 Sa f C0 "^ Wlth the K0 ” r looks of his followers. The party
ine^-iWl 011 Ch “ rlstic ” ote savagery, seeing, a hand and foot of two
stealim>-^nmplc 61 ^ 0 ^, n went out. The men had been caught
the rerfoiibHbl fe ’ A ’ 0W „ ed TT their llv os to the clemency of Bin Sa’ud, Bin Jiluwi,
t ie Redoubtable Amir of Hasa, having wished to put them to death.
on tnf'iTiif ^ mir Ma i 1SUr ’ a l hi r tee n year old son of Bin Sa’ud, visited Bahrain
on the 14th January for medical treatment.
JanuaV^ bm^f d ' a !"i Ta i™ 3 rented l the Hasa B^stoms for eleven lakhs One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees in
reduced’ Prn T** 6 t0 Se ° lire th - 1S d ^ ire a7id was obliged to ask for it to be
bv the imnoMtionr^P 1 ^ has been reduced to destitution
eggs with rermri-M In i-'n las billed the goose that laid the golden
the bulk of the norm! v 1 ’ f° r H 10 prevention of the emigration of women,
me bulk ot the population would have fled to Bahrain long ago.
extract sonuTrum^ov ?^ Sai p- 011 February, his purpose being to
! . • ^ 10m p111 Sa’ud. In this he failed, and the Qusaibis have