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Notes to Chapter Eight

120 See "Analysis of Capital Expenditure by Stales", Appendix A to the
Newsletter of the Trucial Slates Council, 15 September to 31 October
1970, issued by the Development Office, and "Analysis of Recurrent &
Minor Capital Expenditure (1965-70)", ibid., Appendix C.
121 See Newsletter, 15 September to 31 October 1970, p. 4.
122 A very fundamental tool for further development planning was also
provided by a population survey; see "First Population Census of the
Trucial States, March/April 1968" and Fenelon, K.G. The Trucial
States—A Brief Economic Survey, Beirut, 2nd edn, 1969, pp. 17f and
136.
123 Out of 237 expatriates; 195 of the 926 employees were Trucial States
subjects or Omanis. These figures did not include daily paid labour.
124 In 1965 the following facilities were provided with British assistance: AI
Maktum Hospital opened 1950 (75 beds), Ra’s al Khaimah Hospital
opened 1962 (10 beds); Clinics: Sharjah and Umm al Qaiwain, opened
1959, Fujairah and Kalba, opened 1960, Hisn Dibah (Sharjah) opened
1961, Falaj alMu'alla (Umm al Qaiwain), and Musfut ('Ajman) opened
1963, Fayah (Sharjah) and Huwailal (Ra’s al Khaimah) opened 1964.
The clinic at Sharjah was visited daily by a doctor. The other clinics
were visited every other week on pre-arranged circuits of doctors
touring from Dubai. See Trucial States Council, Report 1969, p. 12.
125 The Kuwait State Office opened a hospital in Dubai in 1963 and small
hospitals and clinics in Sharjah, Ra’s al Khaimah, ’Ajman, Umm al
Qaiwain, Khaur Fakkan and Fujairah. Iranian hospitals opened in
'Ajman, Dubai and Fujairah, and the Arabian Mission financed by the
Reformed Church in America had hospitals in Sharjah, Ra’s al
Khaimah, Fujairah and al 'Ain.
126 Trucial States Council, Report 1969, p. 14.
127 During 1970 the hospital cost a total of BD 446,030 in recurrent and
minor capital expenditure; 276 staff were employed.
128 See also mention of this scheme in the FAO Report: Agricultural
Development in the United Arab Emirates. Report on present con­
dilions, prospects and priorities, Cairo 1973, p. 12.
129 See Trucial States Council, Report 1969, pp. 54ff, with a complete list of
the reports and surveys submitted to the Development Office from 1965.
130 For instance a hydrological survey was made by the consultant
engineers Sir Alexander Gibb and Partners in 1969/70; see also above.
Chapter One, footnote 3.
131 This Beirut Office monitored and in some cases even initiated develop­
ment work in the Trucial States. Its archive was the repository of a
wealth of data which had been collected in Dubai and the northern
states. During the Civil War in Lebanon most of this material was
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