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Th® Services.
The Services’ Inpatient Scheme has now been in force for two and a half years, during which
time a total of 1,194 inpatients have been admitted, that is, 918 Europeans and 276 non-European.
This year, 410 European patients came in, 308 from Bahrain and 102 from outside places—such as
transit personnel. The B.O.A.C. staff of Bahrain were also included in this scheme from April 1944.
The following Services’ inpatients were :—
Army 1T R.A.F. .. 325
Navy 48 B.O.A.C. 19
Their leading diseases were
Heat exhaustion, Prickly Heat. Furunculosis 63
Malaria (blood proved) ................................. 28
(clinical) ........................................... 28*
Tonsillitis ................................................................ 34
Dysentery ................................................................ 3xt
Ulcers and septic complaints ................................. 28
Infective Hepatitis (Jaundice) ................................. 24
Injuries ................................................................ 24
*Malaria. Proved cases were—Benign tertian .. 9
Malignant 19
iThe clinical cases were probably not malarial.
f Dysentery. These were :—
(а) Bacillary 13
(б) Amoebic .. 3
(c) Clinical .. 15

Note. The incidence of amoebic and bacillary is reversed in these Europeans as opposed to
the findings in Arabs.
No fatal flying accidents were treated. There were two deaths only, (1) From severe burns
and (2) From Jaundice and pyaemia. Over the whole year there was a higher incidence of R.A.F.
patients due to the increasing numbers of their camp, which reached about 1000, and also to fewer
ships putting in at the naval base. The Army personnel on the island was very small. The wards
were comfortably full during the latter part of the year only.
The usual R.A.F. staff officiated in the wards, namely, one medical officer, four British sisters,
and a technician in the laboratory.

Predominating Male Out-Patient Diseases.
pTrachoma ....................... 904
Ophthalmias Non-trachomatous Conditions 268 1,233
^Cataract ....................... 61
Abscess, Boil, and Ulcer ....................... 996
f Ordinary 756'
Respiratory Diseases -4 Asthma 146 > 966
Lt.b. 64.
Worms (Ascariasis) .. 817
Malaria ..................... 749
Venereal Disease 747
Rheumatism, Myositis, etc. . 412
Abdominal Diseases .. 39i
Injuries and Fractures 301
Piles and Fistula 270
Dysentery (mainly Amoebic) 226