'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency for the Years 1915-1919' [‎106v] (219/396)

40 ANNUAL EEPORT 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.
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in situ. Four additional main oil pumps, each capable of puming 10,000,000
gallons per month at a pressure of 700 lbs. per square inch, were also installed.
The pumping station was completed in April 1917.
Afire occurred at Tembi pumping station ^ on ^ the 9th July
to the bursting of a high pressure valve on the main discharge. The
part of the old pumping station was destroyed and the new pumps were only
saved by the extreme gallantry and self-sacrifice displayed by Messrs. Lindsay
and Still, the former of whom lost his life while engaged in turning off the oil
at the boilers. Repairs were completed and pumping resumed within eight days
of the outbreak.
The Gudar Landor scheme for pumping water to the fields from the
Upper Karun had to be abandoned owing to the difficulty of procuring tbe
necessary material. Arrangements are being made to utilize the old 6" pipe
line from Abgunji to the Fields as a water line and to pump the water from
the Ab-i-Gargar at a point about five miles distant from Abgunji. When the
scheme is completed about 200,000 gallons of water per day will be available
at Tembi.
During 1917 the Company's Geological staff in this district surveyed the
Mughab and Andakha districts, also the country between the White Oil Springs
and Mamatain and the Tul Bazun area to the east of Maidan-i-Naphtun.
With a view to securing sufficient grain for their transport animals during
the next few years, the Company have leased S,750 acres of land at Hussaina-
bad, in the Shushtar Miyanab. They have erected at Hussainabad two Steam-,
driven Centrifugal pumps, each having a capacity of 180.000 per hour, to,
pump water from the Ab-i-Gargar into the old irrigation canals.
Medical.
f Attendance numbers . . 6 661
Dispensary and Civil Hospital combined-^ Minor operations performed , 296
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^ Major operations performed . 8
Great improvements have been effected in the sanitation of the town, fo*
which the Civil Surgeon has made himself responsible.
British Post Office.
Total number of registered letters dealt with
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2,476
19,049
2,464
3,774
1,61.779-13-3
E. G. B. PEEL,
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Assistant Poll ileal Officer,
for Sis Britannic Majesty s Vice-Consul, Ahwai,.,