'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf, 1945 [-1946]' [99r] (210/414)
The record is made up of 1 volume (203 folios). It was created in 1946-1947. 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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no cases of Heat Effects or Heat Exhaustion occurred, but un
doubtedly the large numbers of men who suffered from ulcers,
relapses of malaria, and those unable to recover from the most
trivial of injuries, was due to a very lowered vitality fol
lowing a severe summer. The reason Heat Effects etc. were
not contracted was due to the lay-out of Barrack Rooms which
always had fresh currents of air passing through and at no time
had a more humid atmosphere than the outside air.
STATISTICAL TABLE 1.
Actual
Ratio
per
1000
1945
1944
1945
19U
Average strength
300
300
(excluding 10%
on leave)
of Unit
Total admitted to
111 Not
recorded
370.00
-
hospital
Average constantly
3 Not
recorded
10.00
-
sick in hospital
Sick in Barracks
506
328
1687.00
1093.30
Average constantly
U Not
recorded
46.60
-
sick in Barracks
Deaths in hospital
1
Nil
3.3©
—
Deaths out of hos
1
1
3.30
3.30
pital
16.30
Discharged as medi
4
5
13.30
cally unfit
STATISTICAL TABLE
2,
(Diseases)
♦
Actual
Ratio
per
1000
1945
1944
1945
1944
Malaria
174
93
580.06
310.96
Syphilis
8
27
26.66
90.00
Gonorrhoea
9
43
30.06
143.30
Diseases of diges
15
7
50.00
23.30
tive system
60.00
43-30
Diseases of respi-
18
13
ratory system
43.33
36.60
Diseases of the eye
i
13
11
1
Dysentery
10
9
33.33
30.00
Diarrhoea
4
7
13-30
23.30
Minor septic
163
51
643.33
170.06
diseases
163.33
120.00
Local injuries
49
36
Infectious fevers
Nil
3
-
10.00
All other causes
23
7
76.66
23.30
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The volume contains typescript 'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the Year 1945' [1946] and typescript 'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the Year 1946' [1947]. The reports are introduced by a review of the year by the 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. , and are divided into chapters containing individual reports on each of the agencies, consulates, and other administrative areas that made up the 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. . Both reports conclude with a chapter containing 'notes on the working of quarantine on the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. '. They are signed by the local British official in charge.
The reports cover the following topics: British and non-British personnel; local affairs; local government and ruling families; transport and communications by land, sea, and air; posts and telegraphs; tribal and political matters; relations with local populations; cinemas; trade and economic matters; agriculture; finance; shipping and commerce; education; police and justice; security; military matters; propaganda; health and quarantine; statistics of temperature and rainfall; water; notable visitors; British interests; oil and oil companies; religious affairs; the pearl industry; locusts; Bedouins; date gardens; electricity; telephones; and related information.
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- 1 volume (203 folios)
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There are lists of contents on the first page of both annual reports, on folios 1 and 109.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the third folio after the front cover (the first bearing text) and terminates at 198 on the third folio before the back cover (the last bearing text). The numbers are written in pencil, are enclosed in a circle, and appear 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. Foliation anomaly: ff. 28, 28A. The individual reports that make up the combined annual reports also have their own typescript foliation sequences appearing in the top centre of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio.
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- 'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf, 1945 [-1946]'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:28v, 28ar:28av, 29r:198v, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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