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the Aaerioan Medical j.issiouaries and tlie
Quarantine Modioal Officer, There is a very
strong feeling among the Aruba tiiat the Bahrain
Government should have it3 own hospital and
medioal staff. Tho question is under consi­

deration and when funds are available doubtless
a Government hospital will bo started® In the
meantias the Government proposes to open dis­

pensaries, whion will be run on the lines of the
Government dispensary in Muharraq, in various
plaoes in Bahrain,
A dispensary for women and children is to
be opened on the western quarter of Uanamah,

on the edge of the town whioh it is hoped will
be used not only by the people of Manamah but
by the people from the near villages such as
Haul, £inj, eto. An Iraqi woman who has worked

as a nurse in the Basrah hospital will be put in
oharge of this dispensary,
A dispensary will be opened in liedd in a
building whioh was aoquired by the Government
some years ago. A local Arab with considerable

medical experience who has workeu for the Govern­
ment on previous occasions will be employed as a
dispenser.

A similar dispensary is to be opened at Bilad-
al-Qpdim, which is a fairly central position.
The Government is advertising in India for a suitable
man to oarry out this work. It is proposed that
he shall be provided with a oar to enable him to

visit the neighbouring villages on oertain days
of the week. All the dispensaries and the medioal
workers —