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No. of Students
1955-56 1956-57
Secondary School :
1st Year 175 239
2nd year 124 138
3rd General Section 35 59
Commercial Section 22 28
Teachers’ Training Section 18 23
4th General Section 23 35
Commercial Section 15 22
Teachers’ Training 12

412 556

Technical School :
1st Class 34 31
2nd Class 16 25
3rd Class 24 14
4th Class 10

74 80

GIRLS’ EDUCATION
Report by Lady Belgrave, Directress of Girls’ Education.

In the first nine months of the year there were 11 primary schools and one secondary school
located in the following places :
Manama 4 Primary
1 Secondary
Muharraq 4 Primary
Hedd 1 Primary
East Rafaa 1 Primary
West Rafaa 1 Primary
After the summer holidays a house on the south-west side of Manama was hired, in the
Shia quarter, and a school was opened for 200 students but even with the addition of this new
school and with more classrooms added to some of the other older schools it was not possible
to take in all the children who wished to be admitted to the schools owing to lack of space and
shortage of sufficient trained staff.
During the first part of the year the services of a British woman doctor were made available
for the girls’ schools but in the Spring this doctor had to give up her work owing to ill-health.
A fully-trained Health Worker, with a B.A. degree, the wife of a Syrian doctor employed in the
Medical Department, was taken on to work with the Sister and the Nurse. They paid weekly
visits to every school and saw all the children who were sent to them by the headmistresses,
when necessary they made arrangements for the children to be seen at the hospitals. All the
pupils who had not already been vaccinated were vaccinated and any who showed signs of T.B.
had regular checks by the doctor in charge of the T.B. hospital.