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No.<£/49.
VICTORIA MFMORIAL HOSPITAL,
BAHRAIN,
Dated 11th January, 1949.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THK VICTORIA MFMORIAL HOSPITAL
FOR 1948.
The Victoria Memorial Hospital functioned under the
auspices of the Government of India for the first 3 months
or the year under review and during that period its role
continued to embrace Quarantine duties, the running of
a public dispensary and a 12 bedded hospital together with
the medical attendance on the staffs of the Residency and
Agency, the personnel of ships’ crews and the employees
of certain local business firms.
ist April, the hospital was taken over by
His Majesty’s Government and from that date the dispensary
and hospital were closed down but the other activities con
tinued to function.^ Accordingly the sickness returns
sut mitted in this report are for the most part in respect
o: a reasonably healthy adult communlt , many of whom are
non-locals and so they cannot be taken as a guide to the
general health conditions in the Island and are statistically
unsound lor comparison with previous year’s returns.
change .
1st January to 7th June i Captain M.L.A. Steele, I.M.D.
8th June to 25th July : Lt. Col. tf.J. Moody, I.M.S.
26th July to 31st December: Major J.D. Grant, I.M.S.
HLaLTH CONDITIONS .
On the whole the general health could be ensidered
good. There wer no epidemics and no cases of smallpox,
cholera, plague, or typhus. Broadly speaking one encountered
during the summer months such effects of heat as exhaustion,
toils, and prickly heat and in addition Gastro* intestinal
infections while during winter, the sickness rate decreased
appreciably and common colds, Asthma and Influenzal condi
tions were the chief complaints.
A * The incidence of malaria showed a decrease on the
previous year’s figures and this must be attributed to the anti-
malarial measures carried by the Bahrain Govrrnment.
ESiX^V r JBS* Despite the fact that during the latter part
of the year, the incidence of enteric amongst the local populatioi
sho ed a short peak, only 4 cases are reported. This im
munity may be attributed to protective inoculation.
YhlirHKAb Dl.r AGE: Syphilis and Gonorrhoea in the ratio of
alout 1 to 2 were very prevalent amongst ships’ crews, the
infection in all c?<ses being acquired ex Bahrain.
fil‘ The majority of the cases reported are in respect
of the local population, a few cases of the Bacillary type
were seen d ring my time.
Tuberculosis