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with patients not only from Bahrain but all surrounding parts especially Saudi Arabia. It should
also be mentioned that the people of Bahrain do not appreciate enough how, rich and poor alike, they
arc given the very best drugs and food. There is no class distinction where medical treatment is
concerned, and nourishing diets as an aid to treatment arc highly stressed.
If ever there is an opportunity of serving one’s own people here it is with all facilities at one's
command. How much better for patients to see their own countrymen carrying out their treatment
and presenting it in the way which they fully understand.
Watching the development of medical aid in Arabia and seeing how much they rely on outside
people to run their medical work, it would be a wonderful thing if the people of Bahrain took a leading
share in running their own medical department and showing the surrounding countries a standard
of proficiency in relieving suffering which would be the envy of all.

MALE STATISTICS 1367—("1948;

Outpatients New Cases. Return Cases. Totals.
Hospital .. io, 262 60,457 70,719
Muharraq 12,838 16,931 29,769
Dispensaries 2.550 1,566 4,116
Schools .. 8,208 8,208
Police 1,480 5.336 6,816

35.338 84.290 119,628

Inpatients Totals.
Government Hospital • • 1.542
Isolation 350
> 2,020
Nursing Home 108
Lunatic Asylum 20

Operations
Major.......................... 761"
Minor (Hospital) .. i,3i9 " 2,831
Minor (Dispensaries) .. .. 751 -

Injections
V. D. 3.78o "
Emetine 886
Quinine 125
;
Penicillin 2.510
15.874
Others .. 3.946
T. A. B. 535
Cholera 397
Vaccinations 3.695 J