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as follows:—
State Police (Officers, N.C.O.s and men) ... 350
Special Police *5°
Naturs *5°
Total ... 650

PUBLIC HEALTH.
In April, 1940, Dr. R. H. B. Snow was appointed State Medical Officer. Dr. Snow holds
the following degrees and qualifications: B.A. (Queens’ College, Cambridge), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
London, M.B., B.Ch., Cambridge, D.T.M. & H, London. He previously worked in India and
was for some time under Sir Henry Holland at Quetta.
Report on the work of the Medical Department, male side, by Dr. R. H. B. Snow.
Summary of Statistics of Male Patients of the Bahrain Government
Hospital and Dispensaries
For the Year 1359 (1940).
I.—No. of Outdoor Patients Treated.— /I'.—Injections, etc.—
i. Government Hospital ••• 35.*55 1. I njections ... 2,637
3. Dispensaries ••• ... 20,949 2. T.A.B. Inoculations 7*
3. Police Clinic 5.162 3. Vaccinations 263
Total ... 61,267 Total ... 2,971

II.—No. of Indoor Patients Treated.— V.—laboratory Tests.—
1. Govt. Hospital (7$ months). 602 Total 702
2. Police Hospital (4J months) . 45 VI.—School Medical Examinations.—
3. Isolation Hospital (1 month). *7 Total 492
Total ... 664

III.—Operations.—
1. Major 245
2. Minor *.*95
Total ... 1,440

Bahrain Government Hospital
Out-patients 1359 (1941).
Total No. New Cases ... ... 9.8o7 Summary of Special Diseases.—
Total No. Return Cases ... 35t * 55 1. Eye affections (chiefly trachoma
and its complications) ... 1,981
Grand Total ... 44,962 2. Malaria 598
3. Venereal Disease—
Syphilis 192
Gonorrhoea 188
4. Dysentery (chiefly amoebic) ... 83
5. Asthma 82
6. Mumps 87
Total ... 3,181

The work.will now be reviewed in detail according to the above summary.