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Chapter.. VIII,

Notes on the working of quarantine on the Arab Coast
of the Persian Gulf for the year 1941.

Inspections. •
The Residency Surgeon was ordered by the Hon'ble the
JPolitical Resident to visit Dubai, Trucial Coast, to choose

a site of the proposed hospital there and to inspect the
arrangement for isplation of infectious cases at Dubai and
Sharjah, in August 1941. The best of the five sites offered
by the Shaikh of Dubai was chosen. The plans of the hospital

were sent to the Political Agent, Bahrain, and steps are
being taken to erect the hospital.
Epidemics.
An epidemic of small-pox lated in 1941, in Bahrain,

tested the capacity- of the Quarantine station of that port.
The matter of isolation of cases and contacts has been taken
up in a very effective manner by the Government of Bahrain.
The Shaikhs of Dubai and Sharjah show a very lively inter­

est in the prevention of the spread of small-pox by vac­
cination and isolation of all cases.
Buildings.
The Quarantine Station at Bahrain is in good repair.

Repairs have been carried out to the Quarantine Station
Muscat..
Personnel.

On the death of Lt-Col. J.J. Rooney, M.C., I.M.S. on
5-4-1941, Major R. Holmes, M.B.E., I.M.D., Quarantine Medi­
cal Officer, Bahrain, was appointed Residency Surgeon, Bu-
shire, and Chief Quarantine Medical Officer Arab Coast,
First Class Asst-Surgeon, M. Steele, I.M.D., was ap­

pointed Q.M.O. Bahrain on 1-6-1942. Captain Greenway
was in ah&rge at Koweit throughout the year and First Class
Asst-Surgeon Hynes, I.M.D, at Jfuacat,

Notification of disease*
Weekly health reports are received from‘the Board of ;