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All standiug water in the neighbourhood of the town is regularly sprayed by
the municipal authorities to prevent breeding of mosquitoes and instruction about
causes of malaria is given in the Government schools.
Copies of pamphlets issued by the Health Department in Iraq were circulated
among the public in Bahrain.
The Municipality continued the work of filling in the low lying ground on the
south of the town which becomes water logged for many months during the year.
Government Hospital.
Plans for the dispensary and outpatients building were completed before the
end of the year and work on the foundations was commenced. The hospital is in
the Naim quarter on the western edge of Manama on the shore near the boat
building yards. The outpatients building is on land which is being reclaimed from
the sea, the main hospital building is on the shore immediately south of the out­
patients building and between the two there is a road.

Land Registration Department.

Registration of Sales, Gifts, and Titles. The total number of transactions re­
gistered during the year was 516 including 351 sales, 133 titles and 32 gifts.
Registration fees amounted to approximately Rs. 5,000.

Thirty five properties were put in auction through the Land Department by
orders of Courts.
Revenue from Sales etc. Collections of ground rents amounted to Rs. 2,001.

Sales of Government land amounted to Rs. 1,788, these sales were mostly
small building plots in Manama town or pieces of ground adjacent to houses.
Revenue from sale of Government forms was lis. 2,175 and from fish traps
registration Rs. 155.

The staff of the Land Department was during most of the year occupied
•with Public "Works as well as land work and no new survey work was carried out.

Now that the two departments have been separated the Land Department
will be able to concentrate on survey work.
Programme for 1357.

In the departmental programme for the new year the following items are
included:—
1. Revision of Manama town map. This map was made over ten years ago
and is out of date. It is proposed to make detailed maps of each section of the town.
2. Revision and new survey of Ghosaibia. Roads have been made and many
new houses have been built in this suburb and the existing maps are inadequate.
3. Survey of West Rafa. This town, which is about the fourth largest in
Bahrain, has not yet been surveyed. Eastern Rafa map is to be brought up to
date. It was surveyed about ten years ago and has developed greatly since then.
4. Survey of Shahrakan, Darkilaib, Jezirah, Nebi Saleh and Sitrah. These
villages and islands have not yet been surveyed.

It is intended that eventually the surveys of villages and cultivated areas shall
be incorporated into one large map and that the aerial mosaic, made by the Royal
Air Force a few years ago, shall be utilised for this purpose.