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FINANCE 1955
Revenue Expenditure
Rs. Rs.
Fees 1.72.000 StaflT 15,58,000
Miscellaneous 1.20.000 Drugs, Medical Stores and Equipment 7.58.000
Diet 3.18.000
General Maintenance 7.17.000
Anti-Malaria 2.80.000
Quarantine and Public Health 2,50,000
Total .. Rs. 2,92,000 Total .. Rs. 38,81,000

MALE STATISTICS
GENERAL SUMMARY 1955
OUT-PATIENTS
New Return Total
Hospital 24,350 .. 96,320 .. 1,20,670
Muharraq 14,801 .. 18,450 .. 33,251
Village Dispensaries .. 20,455 .. 13,517 .. 33,972
Police 2,528 .. 2,827 .. 5,355
Total .. 62,134 .. 1,31,114 193,248
IN-PATIENTS
Hospital 2,266
Isolation Blocks 190
T.B. Block 84
Mental Hospital 64
2,604
OPERATIONS
Major Minor Total
842 6,040 6,882
ANAESTHETICS 1,491
LABORATORY TESTS.. 21,269
X-RAYS 5,308

PREDOMINATING OUT-PATIENT DISEASE
Manama Muharraq
Respiratory 2,720 1,844
Rheumatism Myositis, etc 2,201 641
Abccss, Boil and Ulcer 2,142 1,006
Injuries 2,084 1,785
Abdominal 2,020 1,960
Ophthalmia 1,707 1,091
Dermatitis 1,309 839
E.N.T... 1,128 1,317
Trachoma 844 560
Piles and Fistula 402 72
Malaria 356 104
Dysentery, etc. .. 345 207
Venereal Disease 333 125
Fractures 227 16
Worms 226 500
Hernia.. 181 8
Pulmonary T.B. 166 14
Asthma 143 83
Total No. new out-patients seen—All diseases .. 24,350 .. 14,801
Comment—Respiratory disease continues to be the highest acute disability. Ophthalmia
with trachoma has a high incidence also. Injuries and fractures are steadily
mounting annually. Malaria shows exceptionally low figures. Venereal
Disease and Dysentery remain about the same. Tlic T.B. incidence shows a
marked decline.