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Post Office. During the year 3,560 registered letters were received and 3,080
despatched as compared with 4,499 letters received and 4,097 despatched
last year, hour thousand and seventy-one parcels were received and 207
despatched and Its. 13,G98-4-0 worth of stamps were sold.
Cash certificates worth Its. 35,923-8-0 were sold and certificates worth
Rs. 18,720-5-0 were discharged. British Postal Orders to the value of Rs. 799-8-6
were sold and Rs. 11-15-0 paid. Savings Bank deposits amounted to Rs. 42,879
and Money Orders for Rs. 1,30,475-5-5 were issued and Rs. 8,233-7-4 paid.
On the 1st November the Post Ofiice moved to its new quarters. The need
for extra accommodation in the Agency having been keenly felt, proposals were
submitted during the early part of the year involving the alteration of two big
cell rooms to make a new Post Office. The proposal was sanctioned, and a new
Post Office was provided at a cost of Rs. 2,000 a work for which the pre-war esti­
mate had been Rs. 7,000.
Medical.—Assistant Surgeon R. Holmes has remained in charge throughout
the year.
The total number of cases treated during the year, compared with the previous
year, were;—
1930. 1931.
Outdoor patienta .. 9,153 13,070
Indoor patients .. 257 244
Major and minor operations 435 1,038
Dr. Holmes was awarded the Kaiser-i-Hind medal in the Birthday Honours to
the great satisfaction of his many friends in Bahrain. His work has been invalu­
able, and the very large increase in outdoor patients and operations in 1931 is the
best testimony to the efficiency with which he discharged his duties. The increase
has mainly been among the Bahama women, a class that have hitherto not believed
in hospitals, and who will not even visit the women’s hospital at the Mission.
34,243 outdoor patients and 317 indoor patients were treated at the men’s
hospital of the American Mission during the year and 419 major and minor opera­
tions were performed. Dr. L. P. Dame remained in charge of this hospital through­
out the year, except for a period of three months when he proceeded on leave to
the United States.
The women’s hospital had 7,954 outdoor patients and 169 indoor patients as
compared with 8,306 outdoor patients and 255 indoor patients treated during 1930.
61 major and minor operations were performed as against 125 for the preceding
year. Dr. Tiffany held charge throughout the year except for a three months*
recess in Tndia.
Judicial.—The total number of civil suits instituted was 2,310 as compared
with 1,957 in 1930 and the number of criminal suits 360 as compared with 360. The
total number of petitions registered during the year was 2,705 and insolvency cases
12.
The extra clerk applied for last year has been sanctioned, and it has been
possible to speed up the work of the vernacular office.
Visits of Government Officials.—The Hon’ble Lieutenant-Colonel H. V. Biscoe,
Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, accompanied by Captain R. G. Alban,
Under Secretary, and Mr. Lascellcs of the Tehran legation arrived on the 3rd and
left on the 5th February.
Air Vice-Marshal E. Ludlow-Hcwitt, Air Officer Commading, Iraq Command,
arrived on the 26th February and left for Muscat the following day.
Other visitors were the Shaikhs of Kuwait (two visits) and Dubai and Qatar.
Shaikh Muhammad al Hurin of Gaobandi also paid a visit to Bahrain on his way
to and from Hasa, and asked the Political Agent if he could sell him any rifles.
The request, needless to say, was refused.
His Highness Prince Ahmad Tauhid, a grandson of His Imperial Majesty
the late Sultan Abdul Aziz of Turkey accompanied by Jemal Pasha, a Syrian
officer of the old Turkish army and now in the service of Bin Saud also paid
a visit. The latter stated that he Lad been on a mission to India to discover the