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them as in-patients. Ophthalmic diseases arc rife in Bahrain and it is hoped that medical work in the
schools and lessons in personal hygiene will tend to reduce eye illnesses. Nurses from the Government
hospital attend the girls’ schools, weekly, treating students when possible and arranging for them to
attend the hospital when necessary. Familiarity with the nurses and the hospitals when girls arc at
school will encourage them when they arc older to make use of the medical facilities which exist in
Bahrain.
Parents of girls arc rapidly waking up to the advantages of education. When the first girls'
school was opened by the Government it was regarded with severe disapproval by the majority of
the public ; to-day, in Bahrain, a girl who has been educated at one of the Government girls' schools,
who cooks and sews is more sought after as a wife than one who has no education.

Mrs. Bclgrave continued to carry out the duties of voluntary director of girls' schools.
Number of girls' schools at the end of the year 4
Number of students in all the schools .. 763
Number of teachers in all the schools 34

The Technical School.
(By Mr. G. E. Hutchings, Principal.)

Students. At the beginning of the year 1361 (January 1942) there were 65 students attending
the school. At the end of the year the number on the roll was 56, together with 5 youths who, having
completed two years in the classes, were retained as " probationer-workmen.” The numbers and
dispersal of students during the year is given in the following summary.
Engineer- Wood­
ing work Total.
Course. Course.
L Students in the School at the end of the Year.
1. Continuing in 2nd Year Course 15 3 18
2. Repeating 1st Year Course 4 2 6
3. Remaining in School as Probationer-Workmen 0 5 5
4. New students admitted October 1942 12 15 27
5. New students from Kuwait ....................... 5 0 5
Total 36 25 61
II. Students left during the Year.
(a) Completed 2 Years' Training.
1. Passed to higher apprentice training in Bahrain Petro­
leum Company....................................................... 3 0 3
2. Employed as carpenters in Public Works Department . o 2 2
3. Returned to Kuwait .. .! ....................... 5 0 5
4. Training as clerk in the Technical School 1 0 z
(b) Courses not completed.
1. Students known to have entered unskilled and semi­
skilled occupations in the Oil Company 3 3 6
2. Unclassified (in nearly all cases entering employment
having no direct connection with their partial
technical training)............................................ 3 16 19
Total 15 21 36

The students are drawn mainly from Manamah and Muharraq. Eight arc from the distant
town of Hcdd, two from the village of Suq Al-Khamis, and five from Kuwait, the latter holding
scholarships given by the Kuwait Oil Company. The Muharraq students are transported daily by
bus at the Government expense. The boys from Hedd, as well as the Kuwait students are

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