'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency for the Years 1915-1919' [100r] (206/396)
The record is made up of 1 volume (194 folios). It was created in 1916-1920. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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for the year 19i7.
27
referred by His Majesty's Consulate to the Karguzari and satisfactorily settled.
foreign interests are scantily represented in the province. The following
Foreign interests. American-Armenian carpet export firms,
enjoying British protection, are represen
ted here :—
Messrs A. E. Kazan, New York, represented by Meshedi Hussain
Aghazada.
Messrs. H. S. Tavshanjian & Co., New York, represented by Ch.
Jafferson.
Messrs. V. H. Jinishian, New York, represented by Mirza Missirian.
Messrs. Costikyan, New York, represented by A. Mugerditchian.
Business is at a low ebb, but the export of carpets and rugs has not by
any means ceased.
Eussian interests consist solely of the private affairs of a few importunate
ex -agents at Bam, Rat'sinjan, Sirjan, etc., together with one at Yezd who
indulges in troublesome and complicated litigation in the Kerman province.
A considerable amount of work, from which locally at any rate nothing is
rained, devolves upon His Majesty's Consulate from its obligation to look
after these "interests" of its erstwhile Ally.
In October the Muharram traffic from the infected districts of Khorasan
and Kain resulted in an outbreak of
Chol0ra " cholera at Rawar. The Persian quarantine
station at Darband having evidently been useless, the South Persia Rifles
Medical authorities arranged with the Local Government for the establishment
at Rawar of a better-managed quarantine station, the tents, incinerators and
other apparatus for which were supplied by the South Persia Rifles.
Owing, however, to the venality of the officer in charge and the failure of
the local authorities to provide supplies for the people detained, the epidemic
spread and the whole of Kuhbanan and Zarand were affected. Cases averaged
20-25 and deaths 10-12 daily. This state of things was of course carefully
concealed from the Kerman medical authorities, but as soon as it leaked out
Captain J. B. Hance, I.M.S., Senior Medical Officer, took decisive measures to
save the city from an epidemic. Anew quarantine station, managed entirely
by the South Persia Rifles, was opened at Sariasiab, 20 miles north of Kerman,
early in December, and the tents, etc., of the Rawar camp were removed there.
With the help of the South Persia Rifles Cavalry and some Local Government
sowars, together with " A" Section, Supply and Transport, all travellers from
the north were accommodated and provided for in the camp for 10 days before
being allowed to proceed to Kerman. All side roads between infected areas
and Kerman were blocked, as well as the Khabis road which connects with one
of the roads across the Lut to Birjand and Kain.
Thanks entirely to these measures, Kerman escaped what would undoubt"
edly have been a serious epidemic.
Following on a phenomenally mild winter the hot weather set in early
but was not marked by any unusally high
Meteorological. temperatures. The year was practically
rainless until Christmas, when heavy falls of rain and snow commenced and
have continued at intervals since.
C. P. SKRINE, |
His Majesty's Vice-Consul
and Acting Consul, Kerman.
His Britannic Majesty's Consulate,
Kerman ;
The 2lst March 1918.
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The volume includes Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. for the Year 1915 (Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1916); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. for the Year 1916 (Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1917); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. for the Year 1917 (Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1919); Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. for the Year 1918 (Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1920); and Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. for the Year 1919 (Delhi: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1920). The 1915 and 1919 Reports bear manuscript corrections written in pencil.
The Administration Reports contain separate reports, arranged in chapters, on each of the principal Agencies, Consulates, and Vice-Consulates that made up the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. , and provide a wide variety of information, including details of senior British administrative personnel and local officials; descriptions of the various areas and their inhabitants; political, judicial and economic matters; notable events; medical reports; details of climate; communications; the movements of Royal Navy ships; military matters; the slave trade; and arms traffic.
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- 1 volume (194 folios)
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The reports are bound in chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.
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Foliation: the foliation system in use commences at 1 on the first folio after the front cover, and continues through to 194 on the last folio before the back cover. The sequence is written in pencil, enclosed in a circle, and appears in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. The following folio needs to be folded out to be read: f. 36.
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