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Notes to Chapter Eight
49 With the exception of an extra Dh 100 a day for a private room, all
treatment, medicine and hospitalisation have always been free for
everyone there.
50 In the mid 1970s there were about 40 doctors in private practice in
Dubai, mostly of Indian and Pakistani nationality.
51 By the school year 1967-8 when 38 schools existed already in the
Trucial States, 28 of them were financed and run by the Kuwaiti
government. See also below, pages 332.
52 The intake for 1960/61 was a total of 30 students; see also for the
following, Trucial States Council Report, 1969, p. 7.
53 Subjects taught were Arabic and English language, Arabic and English
typing, mathematics and accountancy, business administration, office
practice and procedure, commercial law and commercial geography.
The annual intake was 15 and the course lasted for 3 years.
54 Major P. Lorimer, who was the first commander, was succeeded by
Major J. Briggs, who had already served in several Arab countries
including Bahrain and Qatar. He remained in charge until 1975 after
which he was retained as an adviser.
55 Most Indian, Iranian, British, American, French, German and Dutch
children are educated in schools built by their own community and do
not contribute to the numbers of pupils in Dubai state schools. The
number of expatriate Arab children has reached 80 per cent in some of
the higher classes in secondary schools of the government.
56 The manpower needed to operate the huge workshops, where every
component of a super tanker could be replaced, puts this project into the
category of a large factory; it may not be described as a service industry.

CHAPTER EIGHT
1 See Danvers, F.C., The Portuguese in India, 2 vols (1st edn, 1894) repr.
1966, and Arnold Wilson, The Persian Gulf, London, 3rd repr., 1959, pp.
92ff. For the whole period of Portuguese domination of the Indian Ocean
and the Gulf see also Serjeant, R.B., The Portuguese off the South
Arabian Coast, 1974.
2 See Albuquerque, Alfonso de, The Commentaries of the Great Affonso
Dalboquerque. 4 vols Hakluyt Society, 1875, p. 93; see also Miles,
Countries, pp. 137ff, and Hawley, Trucial States, p. 71f.
3 See e.g. Miles, Countries, pp. 191, 195 and 198, on role of Khasab.
4 The Turks were repeatedly locked in battle with the Portuguese and
later the Persians, and there had been unsuccessful or shortlived
attempts by the Turks in 1550 and 1581 to capture Muscat. Midhat
Pasha, the Turkish Wali in Baghdad (1868-72) succeeded in bringing al
Hasa and Qatar under Ottoman control. There was a small Turkish
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