ملف ١٩٢٢/٥٢٢، جزء ٦، "الخليج الفارسي: البحرين: المستشار المالي: الموازنة" [و‎‎٤‎٢] (٣٨٢/٩٤)

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xtiis institution being or more recent growth
than the Manama Municipality has less funds avail
able i or its activities. The following works have
InH^i carried out apart from the usual town cleaning.
25 shops were partially demolished in order to
widen roads in the bazaar. The gradual widening of
the streets, though destroying much that is
picturesque, makes the town very much less dangerous
in these days of increasing motor traffic.
13 houses were partially demolished in order
to widen roads in the residential part of the town.
A road from the old shore of the town to the
new Sea-road has been filled iB.
A road,suitable for motor traffic, has been
made from the Sea Road through the town to the plain
on the north of Muharrak which relieves the narrow
bazaar road of much of the previous traffic.
The bay opposite the Customs house, previously
as evil smelling backwater, has been filled in and
the reclaimed ground is now a very valuable site.
Several drains have been made from wells inside
the town down to the sea to carry off surplus water
in which mosquitoes were breeding, four shops and
two offices were built by the Municipality on a
piece of Municipal ground. The roofs of the bazaars
have been repaired in numerous places.
Attention has been paid to house drains and
water shoots which were previously in many cases
insanitary and dangerous to the public health.
The (government gifted a piece of land on the
north of the town as a future municipal garden but
owing to necessity for economy a well has no ^ yot
been bored on it.
The town as a whole is remarkably clean
especially