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Slate of the roadsThe surfaced roads which 800 other Asiatics in the employ of the Bahrain
comprise at least half the total number of roads Petroleum Co., Ltd., Bahrain, in additkn to 181
are in poor condition. During the year under Europeans and Americana,
review the following vehicles were registered Public hcullh and lygicn<-.— Muliarraq was attack*
(Military vehicles excepted).
cd by a minor outbreak of smal]-i>o.\ in the
Light can 342 quarter of 1914. The Bahrain Government Mc«lP
Buses 53 cal Department carried out a further 1,20U vacci­
Lorries 110 nations. Usual Quarantine precautions were ob-
Standard of Ihwq.- The standard of served and t he epidemic was countered,
living remains low. Ad increase in wage rates Taxation.— A house rent control law was intro-
barelv offset a slight rise in the ccwt of living. duccd by the Bahrain Government ar.d the general
Eiijjlogwvnt.— At the ecd of the year under tendency of rents to rise was in some degree
report t here were 2,286 Bahrain subjects aDd about counteracted.