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Total population
Number of stono housesf amaraa and shops
Number of aaf houses
Males or females
Literate or illiterate
Nationality and
Religion

The total population of Bahrain was found to number
891970 persons, of whom 27,835 lived in Uanamah and 17,775
in Muharraqj 74,040 were Bahrainis and 15,930 were foreigners.
(11) During the months of May and JUne, 1941, there was

an acute shortage of wheat flour and bread in Bahrain, owing
to shipments of flour from India having bean delayed. To
begin with only a few small consignments were received by

dhows but the position subsequently improved r/hen B. I.
steamers resumed a more regular service to Bahrain.
21. Petrol gum Concessions Limited
(i) Qatar Exploration

(a) Wells and Drilling
No. 2 wall was completed on the 9th June 1941 at a
depth of 6206 ft. at which point a promising oil "showing"
was struck.

No. 3 well, about 4 kilometres oast of the Company’s
Camp at Dukhan, was spudded in on the 1st September 1941 and
by the end of the year had reached a depth of 5138 ft.

There was no production in 1941. A certain amount
of oil from well No. 1 was used on road construction and
maintenance necessary to the Company's further exploration •

operations*
(b) Staff
On an aversgs personnel in Qatar consisted of *-
•'%
Si 8 British
5 American
40 Indians (clerks, artisans, servants)
300 Qataris and other miscellaneous nationals

Thess figures do not include the Company1 s staff
eUttoned in Bahrain, vis f
8 British
18 Indians (darks and servants;
80 Bahrainis

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