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The majority of the papers are connected to the sourcing, purchase, and shipment of medical supplies and
equipment from India and the United Kingdom. These include invoices, covering letters for payments, lists of
items needed, and requests for payments.

In addition, the papers cover the following matters:

• the proposal to appoint a female doctor to the Manama Municipality, later abandoned;

• complaints about the high fees of the Agency doctor and the cost of drugs;

• the employment of male dressers and female nurses in the male and female wards,
respectively;

• free medical services for European officials of the government;

• recommendations by the State Medical Officer regarding the Lunatic Asylum (folio 230).

Included in the file is a memorandum on women's hospitals in India (folios 23-34), including a plan of Zenana
Hospital (folio 29), plans for a 40-bed and 20-bed hospital (folios 30 and 31), a plan for a dispensary and
emergency ward (folio 32), and a plan and designs for a house for the doctor (folio 33).

Folios 254-272 are internal office notes.

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