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(1) . Captain Parveb and the Mobile Dispensary went out
to ou&angird (Khafajiyahy and Bisaitin on 16th returning on C2s\!
2?th; he left again for Howaizeh on 31st.
(2) . British C e mmun ity• Mr. D.Hammond, Manager of the I.B.I.
and his family have left Ahwaz for leave in England. His
place has be^n taken by Mr.W*Kennedy, formerly in Meshed.
PBRblAN ADMINIb^R ATIOIsf .
(3) . The ^ueen mother passed through Ahwaz on 16th re
turning to Tehran from Cairo.
The Governor-General, with the Chief of Police and
Director of Posts A Telegraphs visited iihuahtar from
20 th - 22 nd.
(5). It is reported that In bhushtar the quarrelling
between the gak&hdar (oepah Hia,*>ee para 8 of Diary 14,1944)
and the Chief of Police is such that it rnay be necessary to
remove both from the area.
( 6 j. Military. Colonel ivtapur arrived in /Jiwaz on 22nd to ♦
examine the situation in the Xuh Galu and the disarming of the
Arabs and te inspect the Army. Brigadier Humayuni and Coltcuel
Atapur left for Behbehan on 29th.
(?). Gendarmerie. Colonel bhatas Molk Ara left for Tehran oa
16th.
( 8 ) . jUiwaz m uni cipality. There have been complaints in the
ci^y against the Municipality, that it spends money on nuntoer-
less employees and does nothing for the town. There is con
siderable truth in this, although some (if quite inadequate)
work has been done in the last few months on the Ahwaz stfects
and digging continues on the road to the *_• 1. 0 . C. compound
(see para 10 of Ahwaz Diary 17, 1944). The question of this
road seems to be being handled in the usual futile menne^; the
A.I.O.C. who had offered to resurface the road, has had io
write to the Governor-General pointing out that the Municipality
appears to be preparing for a 15 metre roadway, whereas the
Company’s offer applies to the preaent 30 foot roadway. More
over, although the road goey over a slight eminence, the
Municipality seems determined, in contrast to the recocnq^tid-
ations of the A.I.O.C* surveyor, to drain the whole road ih
one direction; and the A.I.O.C. has had to disclaim responsi
bility for undertaking any alteration of the road level.,
(9) . Health. The report of the Health Department St Ahwa* Isoks
very fine, nothing being reported for Ahwaz, Ram Horrauz,bhushtar
and Dizful during the whole month except 1 death from tyahus
and 1 from smallpex in „Jhrraz and a caye of dysentary in Dizful.
It doey a© t show, what Captain Parves now reports after visiting
ousamgird, that a smallpox epidemic has recently been raging in
that area. During four months IOOO people are said to hav 2 died,
ihe single semi qualified doctor in the area was sent vaccine,
but this was either Infected ©r useless, hecauce most of those
who were vaccinated subsequently came out with smallpox, many dying.
Infant mortality in the area is said to he bOfs.
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