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Staff. The following key Staff were appointed this year :
Mr. M. C. Hardic, M.A., Oxon, A.H.A. Secretary to the Medical Department.
Dr. K. M. Louric, M.B., Ch.B., Edin.
Dr. W. R. Tidy, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
Dr. M. I. Itty, M.B., B.S.
Dr. M. B. John, M.B., B.S.
Dr. M. Nasr, D.D.S. Part-time Dental Surgeon.
Sister A. J. M. Hemingway, S.R.N., H.V. Senior Health Visitor.

Distinguished Visitors :
Sir Stewart Duke Elder, K.C.V.O., F.R.C.S.
Dr. M. D. Mackenzie, C.M.G., M.D.
Professor C. A. Wells, F.R.C.S., Professor of Surgery, Liverpool.

Conferences. The B.M.A. Conference was held in Teheran to which we sent as delegates
Dr. I. M. A. Doeg and Dr. N. P. Shannon.
The Persian Gulf Medical Society Annual Meeting arranged for November in Aramco,
was eventually cancelled owing to the political situation.

Staff Resignations after Completion of Contracts :
Sister M. Weymes, Senior Health Sister, June 1956.
Dr. A. I. Muir Leach, Part-time Girls’ School Doctor, April, 1956.
Dr. N. P. Shannon, Assistant M.O. to L.M.O., December, 1956.

Dr. R. J. Biggar, M.D., Chief Medical Officer to the Bahrain Petroleum Oil Company.
The sudden death of Dr. Biggar, well known to this Department as a colleague and friend,
was a calamity which greatly upset the whole community.
His enthusiasm and frank approach to medical problems, his humour and great energy*
will long be recalled.
He contributed to many of the public health schemes of the Island and his ideas were
sound and practical. Dr. Biggar leaves a great void. Such men are not easily replaced, and
our sympathies are extended to his wife and family.