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hospital treatment for women though the hospital is still not as
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much used as the excellence of the building and the soundness of
: the treatment would Justify. The out-patient department is large­
ly attended and there is no doubt that Dr. Crouse has made consi­

derable progress during the year towards winning the confidence
of the women of the Town,
(f) Post and Telegraphs.
In March the Indian Posts and Telegraphs Department of the

Government of India took over the Kuwait Post Office from Messrs.
Cable and Wireless Limited.
Postal communication was reopened with Iraq by the overland
route and Messrs, the Kuwait - Zubair Transport Company entered

into an agreement for the carriage of the mail twice a week
between Kuwait and Iraq,and Iraq and Kuwait for one year from the
1st of April. This was indeed a notable step forward but it was

not the only one for later in the year the Indian Post and
Telegraphs Department undertook the repair of the Kuwait - Zubair
land line as far as Safwan, the Iraq frontier post, and thirty
six of the sixty eight miles had been completed by the end of the
year.

Messrs. Cable and Tireless limited continued to operate
their wireless telegraphy station efficiently and during the year
installed an automatic telephone service. There are at present

seventy subscribers to the telephone service and there are many
more potential subscribers but ’war conditions have made it impos­
sible for the Company to obtain sufficient instruments for all the

people who have applied to have telephones installed on their
business premises and in their private houses. The system is
inexpensive and efficient,

(g) Education, m July the Kuwait Government decided to dispense
with the services of the Palestinian teachers. The reasons for
this decision are somewhat obscure but the Educational Department
were probably actuated by a desire to improve their teaching staff

and at the same time save money.t It sounds an almost impossible
object to attain but they have in fact come very near to achieving

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