‘Administration Report of Aden for the year ending 31 March 1934’

Content

Annual administration report of the Aden Settlement, providing a summary record of the main events and developments in each department of the Administration of Aden during the financial year 1933-34. The report was printed at the Government of India Press, New Delhi, in 1935.

The report is divided into the following sections, some of which are further divided into sub-headings:

• ‘I. – General’ (ff 3-4), consisting of: Description; The Island of Perim; Historical Note
• ‘II. – Area and Population’ (f 4)
• ‘III. – Climate’ (f 4)
• ‘IV. – Administration’ (ff 4-5)
• ‘V. – Finance’ (f 5)
• ‘VI. – Judicial’ (f 5)
• ‘VII. – Police’ (f 5)
• ‘VIII. – Prisons’ (f 5)
• ‘IX. – Medical’ (ff 5-7), consisting of: European General Hospital; Civil Hospital; Infectious Diseases Hospital; The Keith Falconer Mission Hospital of the United Free Church of Scotland; Finance; Staff; Scope of Work; Settlement Work; Leper Asylum [hospital for persons affected by leprosy or Hansen’s Disease]; Dispensaries; Vaccination
• ‘X. – Public Health’ (ff 7-8), consisting of: Births; Deaths; Infectious Diseases; Water Supply and Drainage
• ‘XI. – Education’ (ff 8-9)
• ‘XII. – Public Works’ (f 9)
• ‘XIII. – Municipal’ (f 9)
• ‘XIV. – Port Administration’ (f 9)
• ‘XV. – Trade’ (ff 9-10)
• ‘XVI. – Shipping’ (f 10)
• ‘XVII. – Industries’ (f 10), consisting of: Fish Meal Industry; Soap Manufacturing Industry ‘XVIII. – Customs’ (f 10)
• ‘XIX. – Transport’ (f 10)
• ‘XX. – Post Office’ (f 10)
• ‘XXI. – Registration’ (f 11)
• 'XXII. – Telephones’ (f 11)
• ‘XXIII. – Miscellaneous’ (f 11), consisting of: Hotels; Regatta; Press Reuters.

A table of contents listing the sections of the report is on folio 2. The remainder of the volume (ff 13-54) consists of appendices to the report, which are listed on folio 12. Folio 55 consists of a map of Aden (IOR/V/10/573, f 55).

Extent and format

1 volume (54 folios)

It is grouped into

'GENERAL PLAN OF ADEN SETTLEMENT'

4 images

Ref: IOR/V/10/573, f 55

Arrangement

The report contains a table of contents listing headings.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 56; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

Pagination: the volume also contains a pagination sequence in parallel between ff 3-54.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/V/10/573

History of this record

Date(s)

1935 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Colonial administrationAnnual reports

Places

Perim IslandAden

People & organisations

Political ResidencyGovernment of Bombay

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