'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf Political Residency for the Years 1915-1919' [‎121v] (249/396)

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ANNUAL REPORT OP THE PERSIAN GTJLF 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.
The affairs of the Boir ^hmadi Garmsiri on the other hand took a serious
turn for tlie worse. In April the Deputy Polilical Resident, while visitin®
Eehbehan, on tour in company with Mr. Chick, was met by the two brothers'
Nasrullph Khan and MuzafiferuJlah Khan, at Zeidun, and warmly invited to
visit their home at Aru. The visit passed ofl very weil, and on the retura
journey the Khans came in to Behbehan, and Nasrullah Khan, for the first
time for ye^rs, paid liis land revenue. Ho then insisted on coming on to
Bushire, ostensibly for medical treatment, but mainly for amusement. b After
a few days at Busbire he proceeded to Mohammerah on a visit to the Shaikh
and was met there by the nt?ws that Ins brother had treacherously seized his
fort in his absence and turned out his family. He spent the rest of "the year in
endeavouring to regain his fort by force or intrigue, but the Bakhtiari Khans
after promising him every assistance, were bought oyer by his brother and
nothing was done. *
The friendly Khans were of course delighted at the course or events in
, , tl!e hinterland, and were lavish in offers
Tie Haiyat Daud cotuederacy. l * i „ vu - CJa
ol aimed assistance, which was of course
not required. There were no events of importance in this tract.
Here also the Bushire operations produced an excellent effect, and it
became possible to post Customs officials
in several ports from which they had in
Prrsi.m Htttfr.il South of BusLire.
the past been consistently ejected.
Bush.re :
The 26th July 1919.
J. H. IT. BILL,
Deputy Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. , Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
MKMOEANDUM BY MAJOE J. McPHEESON, I.M.S, EESIDENCY
SUEGEON IN THE PEES J AN GULE.
HGSp5tal During 1918 the hospital has treated
14,69 i out-patients 63 in-patients.
The number of operations performed was 646, and 52 of these were in-door
patients.
The prevailing diseases were malaria, diseases of the eye, of the respiratory
system and of the digestive apparatus.
g anitary Bushire was visited by cholera and
influenza during the year.
The first cases of cholera discovered here were noted on the 11th ipril
among the Turki immigrants, some of whom had been accommodated in
buildings in the town. (In mid February it was reported that cholera was
present 3 farsakhs from Shiraz.) With the assistance of the Deputy Governor,
sick and contacts were evacuated into huts and the buildings disinfected.
The measures taken brought the local epidemic to a prompt termination.
In the middle of May the disease was reported from the neighbourhood o^
Yezd, and from the environs of Shiraz, it was officially reported in June,
where it attacked the South Persia Eifles. In August, cholera was stated to
prevail six stages out on the Bandar Abbas road, and quarantine measures
against arrivals from the interior were in action until earlv in September.
Influenza arrived in Bushire on 4th October and was responsible for
about *.,000 deaths. Influenza also appeared in Lingah, in November, while
at Bandar Abbas, in July, an illness of influenzal type was prevalent.
In Bandar Abbas, measles was prevalent in Spring ard later, diarrho6aj
dysentery and fever made the health of that town indiffe- ent till May.
At Debai, in June, an epidemic which appeared to be cholera was
responsible for many deaths.