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Village sanitation is primitive but anti-malaria measures have reduced the incidence of
Malaria considerably and the residual spraying helps to keep down the fly population. Further
measures on the lines already indicated arc necessary.
The number of sanitary inspections carried out during the period under review is shown
in Table “B”.
TABLE "A". CLASSIFICATION OF FOOD PREPARATION PREMISES, MANAMA,.

Category. Number.
A 10
B 37
C 55
I) 44

TABLE *‘B”. SANITARY INSPECTIONS CARRIED OUT DURING :
9/9/1953 to 31/12/53. 1/1/54 to 31/12 54
Bake Houses Primary .. 39 84
Re-visit .. 48 106
Coffee Shops Primary .. 27 79
Re-visit .. 43 114
Drains Primary .. 19 31
Re-visit .. 17 57
Fly Infestations Primary .. 4 21
Re-visit .. 6 7
Food Premises Primary .. 163 602
Re-visit .. 146 404
Hotels and Restaurants Primary .. 14 98
Re-visit .. 15 121
Ice Cream Premises Primary .. 2 21
Re-visit .. 2 31
Lemonade, Etc., Premises Primary .. 6 74
Re-visit .. 11 32
Rat Infestations .. Primary .. 6 22
Re-visit .. 91 81
Refuse Primary .. 37 65
Re-visit .. 15 72
Sanitary Accommodation .. Primary .. 18 104
Re-visit .. 24 55
Slaughter Houses Primary .. 62 246
Re-visit ..
Tips Primary .. 43 312
Re-visit ..
Others Primary 65 312
Re-visit .. 24 214

Anti-Malarial Measures. Bahrain Government conducted control measures over three-
quarters of the total area of the island and the R.A.F. and the Bahrain Petroleum Company
Limited operated in the remaining portion. The measures employed continued to consist o
Tifa fogging and Residual Spraying with D.D.T. and Gammexanc, larvicidal work an t
prevention of breeding places. The number of breeding places detected and treated uring
the period under review was as follows :—
1st Jan. to 31st Dec., 1954.
9th Sept, to 31st Dec., 1953. Total.
Anoplieline. Cnlex. Total. A nop he line. Cnlex. 1753
: Manama 97 .. 291 .. 368 200 .. 1553 .. 308
307 ..
Muharraq — .. 476 .. 476 I .. 3N60
Garden and Rural Areas 5703 .. 12277 .. 17980 14786 ..
33221
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