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on two months recess. Dr. Thoms from Basrah held charge of (ho Hospital
Muring Dr. Dame’s absence on the mainland. The Mission doctors are aiwavs
ready to leave their Hospitals for indefinite periods and if necessary close them
to attend eases in the interior.
67. The Women’s Hospital of the American Mission treated 1G,G06 outdoor
patients and 30S indoor patients during 1932. 94 Major and Minor operations
were performed. Mrs. (Dr.) Hacnggi held charge throughout the year.
G8. A serious matter is the great increase of malaria, the number of cases
being four times as many as those in 1926, which has resulted from the boring,
of artesian wells and the breeding facilities afforded to mosquitoes in. the waste
water. Measures to combat this evil are being concerted.
G9. Judicial.—The total number of Civil suits instituted was 2,471 com­
pared with 2,310 in 1931, and the total number of Criminal suits 445 as com-
pared with 360. The total number of petitions registered during the year
amounted to 2,969 and Insolvency cases to 9.
70. Visits of Government Officials and Others.—The Hon’ble Licut.-Colonel
Sir Hugh Biscoc, K.B.E., Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, paid an official
visit to Bahrain on the 3rd January accompanied by Mr. Baggallay of the
Teheran Legation. He again visited Bahrain for varying periods on the 20th
January, 20th March (accompanied by His Britannic Majesty’s Minister at
Teheran, Mr. Iloare), 12th April, 3rd May and 20th June, if is death on the
19th July was much lamented by all the inhabitants of Bahrain, who felt they
had lost a sincere friend. When the number of these visits is considered, many
in rough weather and some in most unpleasant heat, it will be realised how Sir
Hugh hastened his end by his devotion to duty.
71. The Hon’ble Lieut.-Colonel T. C. W. Fowle, C.B.E., Political Resident
in the Persian Gulf, also visited Bahrain on an official visit from the 5th to 12th
December, accompanied by Mr. J. Croning, M.B.E., Under Secretary.
72. Sir Philip Sassoon, Under Secretary of State for Air, passed through
Bahrain in January. He was to have spent a night here, but receiving an
unfavourable weather report postponed his arrival a day and only halted for an
hour or so. lie was much struck by the relative cleanliness of Manamah, as
compared with Baghdad.
73. Other visitors were the Shaikh of Kuwait, who accompanied Sir Hugh
Biscoc in January, a somewhat embarrassing visit.
74. Monsieur Georges Cassin, French Consul at Bushire, arrived on the
19th of March and left on the 26th.
75. Mr. K. S. Twitchell, an American Prospector, believed to be in the pay
of Crane, the American bathroom millionaire, arrived from Hasa on the 7th
January.
76. The number of Indian beggars has somewhat reduced, and no disreput­
able Europeans visited Bahrain during the year, thereby showing that the
Passport restrictions have borne fruit.
77. Sa’udi Arabia.—The outstanding point of interest was the lion’bio
ILicut.-Colonel Sir Hugh Biscoe’s visit to Bin Sa’ud at Hofuf, accompanied by
the Political Agent, Captain C. G. Prior, and Lieut.-Colonel H. R. P. Dickson,
O.I.E., Political Agent, Kuwait. The visit was interesting, the apparent friend-,
liness of Bin Sa’ud contrasting with the sour looks of his followers. The party
left Hofuf on a characteristic note of savagery, seeing, a hand and foot of two
men mailed over the town gate as they went out. Tho men had been caught
stealing camels, and owed their lives to the clemency of Bin Sa’ud, Bin Jiluwi,
the redoubtable Amir of Ilasa, having wished to put them to death.
78. The Amir Mansur, a.thirteen year old son of Bin Sa’ud, visited Bahrain
on the 14th January for medical treatment.
79. Muhammad-al-Tawwil rented the Hasa Customs for eleven lakhs in
January, but was unable to secure this figure and was obliged to ask for it to be
reduced. The Province, moro especially Qatif, has been reduced to destitution
by the impositions of Bin Sa’ud, who has killed the goose that laid the golden
eggs with remarkable skill. But for the prevention of the emigration of women,
the bulk of the population would have fled to Bahrain long ago.
80. Abdul Aziz Qusaibi went, on Hajj in February, bis purpose being t»q
pxfract some money from Bin Sa’ud. In this lie failed, and the Qusaibis have