'Adminisistration [Administration] Reports 1931-1935' [‎55r] (109/416)

APPENDIX I,
^otes on the working of the 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. Dispensary, for the year 193,1.
Major H. J. H. Symons, M.C., held charge of the appointment of 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.
Surgeon from the 1st January until he proceeded on leave to the United Kingdom on 23rd
December. 611 d ^ Maj ° r J - J ' K00ney ’ LM ' S - ^'teld charge until 31st
First CIass_ Assistant Surgeon, M. L. A. Steele, I.M.D, -was in sub-charge of the
-Dispensary from 1st January until the 31st December.
Climatically the year was most unusual. There were no winter rains in the early
P , ai ?r 0f f le y '™ r i but eold North ™ds kept the temperature remarkably low until the end
o ', area, the hot weather period was cooler than usual and this was due also to the
prevalence of the North wind.
Owing to two consecutive winters being almost rainless a food, forage, and water
famine threatened Arrangements were made by the local authorities for the importation
of grain and drinking water for the inhabitants of Bushire had to be brought in skins
from bahmam, a distance of six miles. No outbreak of famine diseases took place in
pretalmtOiere 110148 ir0m d ° Wn ^ C ° aSt ' indicate that d^eney diseases were
One result of the laek of rain was a falling off in the incidence of malarial fevers.
iQuo Th ™ nflUen f a ,' epidemi< i Which Started in November 1931, carried on into February
P „ rhe m0rt f hty was 1118:11 0 "'; n S t0 *Fe early development of Lobar and Broncho-
Dneumonia m a large percentage of the cases.
•were^fonows 1 *- ° f in ’ patients and outdoor attendances, in comparison with those of 1931
1931
1932
In-patients.
49
27
Out-patients. Operations.
13,136 279
10,119 127
The decrease in the number of attendances is mainly due to the mildness of the climate
V ^ ar ^nd the falling off in malarial fevers. The autumn and early winter were
r U Tu V attelldances - 111 “o™ 111 years this season is a ‘ rush ’ one
, th e hospital staff. The rains were nearly a month late in starting and were not
followed by the really piercing North wind that is a feature of the cold weather There
was an outbreak of diphtheria amongst the School children in the late summer and cases
of amoebic dysentry were seen from time to time throughout the year.
Visited Rn a ir C0Ul0 fr'’ f 0 Freneh of the Persian Medical Service,
visited Bushire m the . early summer and was shewn around the Dispensary. For the
period of his visit the twenty beds of the Bushire Charitable Hospital were filled by
Ifter Le d Pat - entS ’ Wh ° were Paid Eials 3 P er dienl - K has been reported thS
after one or two days incarceration the ‘ patients ’ struck and demanded Rials 5 per diem
of the hospual riaff. • ^ ^ <1 by members
J. J. ROONEY,
Major, I. M. S.,
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. Surgeon and
Chief Quarantine Medical Officer, Bushire.
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