IOR/R/15/1/750

This file contains Government of Bahrain Administrative Report for the Years 1926-1937 and copies of the Government of Bahrain Annual Report for the Hijri years 1356-1363 (1938-1944). Each report appears to be compiled from departmental reports by Charles Dalyrmple Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, and includes a General Review authored by him. Financial and budgetary details are given for the Bahrain Government, as well as activities in various different areas, including: Pearl Diving, Police and Security, Public Health, Judicial, Public Works, Municipalities, Land Registration, Wakf [Waqf], Education, Minors' Department, and Electric Supply. The reports also contain general information concerning state visits, for example that of ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Saud), and important events, such as the Zubara Dispute and the death of Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah. The reports include photographic images, charts, tables and graphs.

Various other Government of Bahrain officials are also associated with the reports, including Mr W B Steele, State Engineer; Group Captain H P G Leigh, State Engineer; Mr C C L de Grenier, Director of Customs and Port Officer; Mr G W R Smith, Director of Customs, Port Officer and Food Controller; Dr I Davenport Jones, State Medical Officer; Dr R H B Snow, State Medical Officer; Dr M M McDowall, Lady Medical Officer; Dr I M A Doeg, Lady Medical Officer; Mr F J Wakelin, Director of Education; Mr G E Hutchings, Principal of the Technical School; Mrs Marjorie Belgrave; Khan Sahib Mohammed Khalil Memon, Superintendent, Land Registration Department; Mr Mohamed Saleh Shater, Manama Municipality Secretary; Mr Ahmed Al Omran, Muharraq Municipality Secretary; Mr Mohamed Dowaicer, Superintendent of the Minors' Department; and Mr Ibrahim Khalfan, Passport Officer.