'Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf. Vol I. Historical. Part IA & IB. J G Lorimer. 1915' [‎1590] (1745/1782)

Alio war ce
for a medical
officer at
Baarah, from
1890.
Official
residence of
the British
lepreicnta-
tive at
Basrah,
1878-1903.
1590
transference of the post to Her Majesty's Government with a vie i
its being manned in future from His Majesty 's Consular Service At
the same time they offered a money contribution for the maintenance
the Consulate equal to its whole average cost during the previous V
years, and intimated their willingness that Her Majesty's Govern,, ^
should adjust the relations of the Consul at Basrah with the Resident at
Baghdad, to whom he had hitherto been subordinate.
These proposals were accepted by Her Majesty's Government Th
Indian contribution was fixed at £1,400, a charge which was to be liabl!
to revision at the eud of five years; and Her liritannic Majesty's Consul
at Basrah was placed under the superintendence of 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.
at Baghdad in his character of Consul-General. The British Indian
l ost Office at Basrah was retained, in connection with the Consulate at
the expense of the Government of India; but an Indian Sub-Treasurv
which bad existed m the Consulate was closed. The first Consul under
the new arrangements was Mr. A C. Wratislaw, who assumed charge
ot his duties at Basiah on the 12th December 1898
the need of medical arrangements for the benefit of the British
community at Basrah, which had long been felt, was emphasised by the
death of Mr. Robertson, the Assistant Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , and his two
children from cholera in August 1889 ; and iu the following year his
successor Captain Ravenshaw, met with an accident and could obtain
no skilled assistance. There was a small resident British community
and the number of Europeans on board British vessels lying in the port
was at times considerable. In these circumstances the Government of
India agreed to contribute R100 per mensem towards the salary of a
private medical practitioner whom the British mercantile firms at Basrah
proposed to engage for their employes, on condition of his affording his
services to Government servants at Basrah. Dr. Eustace, Dr. Jagana-
a " d D ''' Dobbyn were the first medical men employed at Basrah
under the combined arrangement. The contribution of the Government
of India to the doctor's salary merged in the pavment of £1,1,00 a (ear
which, after 1898, they made to Her Majesty's Government on accent
of the .Basrah post.
It will be remembered that in 1875 the British representative at
Basrah was accommodated in a hired house for which rent, at the rate
o ft 100 a mouth, was paid to an ostensible owner, Haji Ibrahim,
legarding whose title to the property there was some doubt. The lease
was not terminable except by consent of the tenant, and the Assistant
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