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19. Post Office.—(i) Sayed Zafar Hussain held charge of the Post Office
throughout the year.
(n) There was a considerable increase in the work of the Post Office
during the year 1938. The following are the figures for registered letters
and parcels dealt with during the year :—
dumber of Registered letters received ..... 9692
Number of Registered letters despatched .... 12 278
Number of parcels received 6 654
Number of parcels despatched ...... 757
(m) Stamps worth Rs. 73,659-10-6 were sold during the year as com
pared with Rs. 94,110-2-0 during the year 1937. This is accounted for
by the considerable reduction in air mail postage {e.g., letters to England
by the air mail are charged 2J annas per half ounce in place of 7^ annas).
[iv] The proposal that the Post Office should be transferred to some more
central part of the town was still under consideration at the end of the year.
xj 1 20 ' Victoria Memorial Hospital. —Assistant Surgeon R.
Holmes, I.M.D., held charge of the Victoria Memorial Hospital
throughout the year. r
1937. 1938.
Outpatients . . ........ 15,264 16,751^
Inpatients . .... . . 249 196
Operations . j 764 1>883
(n) Hospitals of the Arabian Mission.—Dr. W. H. Storm, M.D., and
Dr. Esteher Barney held charge of the General and Women's hospitals res
pectively 01 the Arabian Mission during the year 1938.
1937. 1938.
Outpatients ....... 64 128
Inpatients ....... 1 155
Operations ....... 89(3
52,330
1,037
880
^ Dr. Ian Davenport Jones was appointed
State Medical Officer by the Bahrain Government in September 1938, to run
the btate Medical Department.
The Bahrain Government hospital, which is under construction, is planned
to have 80 beds, with facilities for surgery, obstetric work and X-ray diag
nosis. 16,000 outpatients were treated at Bahrain Government dis
pensaries during the last quarter of the year. Figures are not available for
tiie earner period.
{iv) Malaria and Venereal Disease continue to be the main sources of
sickness, and it cannot at present be said that either is on the decrease.
^ " ^ 1 i di ' L i VLS " visited Bahrain from January 19th to
30th and May 11th to 17th, and prepared a report on anti-malarial measures
for the island. His final report was received on the 7th December Wavs
and means of carrying it into effect are under consideration. * ^
2 i l number of civil suits was 1,101 as compared
with 291 1^1937 number of criminal cases was 207 as compared
22. Aotivities of Germans.—{i) Herr Helns, a director of the Hansa
Company at Bremen, visited Bahrain for a few days in March He v™
paying an official visit to Messrs. Gray, Mackenzie and Company Limited
who are the local agents for the Hanza Line. inntea,
J") Herr Hofinger of Messrs. Ford Motors Limited arrived in Bahrain
on the 20th August 1938. The object of this visit was stated to be in con
nection with the settlement of an agency commission question in dispute
between the Bahrain and Saudi Arabia agents. i e