"تقرير عسكري عن شواطئ الجزيرة العربية المطلة على الخليج الفارسي، البحرين، الأحساء، قطر، عُمان المتصالحة وعُمان" [‎٣‎٢] (٢٢٦/٤٦)

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, HEALTH-
[ KUWAIT.
8. Health. —Prevailing diseases—
(1) Eye diseases.
(2) Ear diseases.
<3) Skin diseases.
(4) Tuberculosis.
(5) Digestive diseases.
(6) "Venereal diseases.
In order of incidence.
Epidemics. —There have been no epidemics of Cholera
or Plague for many years. Small-pox is endemic all
the year round. The town being walled lends itself to
Strict quarantine supervision, the regulations of which are
governed by the Paris Sanitary Convention of 1926.
irisecis —A very few sandflies and mosquitoes appear in
the Spring and Summer; the latter are mostly of the non-
malarial type though a few cases of malaria have been v
found during the last 3 years, in persons who have never
-left the town. Flies are troublesome during the Spring
:-and Autumn months only. No mosquito nets are necessaij.
Hospitals. —There is a charitable Dispensary for Out
patients only, but the American Mission have a hue
Hospital, where Europeans can be treated.
Quarantine. —The quarantine service for Kuwait
Bahrein and Muscat is under the direction of the Political
Agents at those places and the agency surgeon at each
place acts as quarantine medical officer.
9 p os tal. —There is an Iraq Government Post Office
in Kuwait; in which the postage stamps sold are however
fVmse ef the Government of India. This latter arrange
ment is due to the reluctance of the Sheikh of Kuwait to
have the head of a neighbouring Arab ruler on stamps
sold in his own territory. Now that Iraq has entered the
iLeaeue of Nations and gained her independence steps are
being taken to have a British Post Office and wireless
-service.
BAHREIN.
General Rescript ion.—The Sheikhdom of Bahrein con
sists of the archipelago formed by the islands of Manama,
Muharraq, Umm-Na'san, Sitrah and Nebi Sala, with a
number of lesser islets and rocks. The whole forms a
©ompact group almost in the middle of the bight which