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Coll 30/9 'Persian Gulf: Administration Reports 1926-1938' [30v] (65/1028)
The record is made up of 1 volume (510 folios). It was created in 19 May 1927-14 Nov 1939. 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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19. Post Office.—(i) Sayed Zafar Hussain held charge of the Post Office
throughout the year.
{ii) There was a considerable increase in the work of the Office
during the year 1938. The following are the figures for registered letters
and parcels dealt with during the year :—
Number of Registered letters received .
Number of Registered letters despatched
Number of parcels received
Number of parcels despatched
9,692
12,278
6,654
757
(m) Stamps worth Rs. 73,659-10-6 were sold during the year as com
pared with Rs. 94,110-2-0 during the year 1937. This is accounted for
by the considerable reduction in air mail postage (e.g., letters to England
by the air mail are charged 2 ^ annas per half ounce in place of 7^ annas).
(iv) The proposal that the Post Office should be transferred to some more
central part of the town was still under consideration at the end of the year.
20. Medical. — (i) Victoria Memorial Hospital. —Assistant Surgeon R.
Holmes, M.B.E., held charge of the Victoria Memorial Hospital
throughout the year.
1937. 1938.
Outpatients . . . . . . . 15,264 16,751
Inpatients ....... 249 196
Operations . . . . . . . 1,754 1,883
(n) Hospitals of the Arabian Mission. —Dr. W. H. Storm, M.D., and
Dr. Esteher Barney held charge of the General and Women’s hospitals res
pectively of the Arabian Mission during the year 1938.
1937. 1938.
Outpatients ....... 64,128 52,330
Inpatients . . . , . . . 1,155 1,037
Operations . . . . . . ,• 896 880 " N
(iii) State Medical Hospital. —Dr. Ian Davenport Jones was appointed
State Medical Officer by the Bahrain Government in September 1938, to run
the State Medical Department.
The Bahrain Government hospital, which is under construction, is planned
to have 80 beds, with facilities for surgery, obstetric work and X-ray diag
nosis. 16,000 outpatients were treated at Bahrain Government dis
pensaries during the last quarter of the year. Figures are not available for
the earlier period.
(iv) Malaria and Venereal Disease continue to be the main sources of
sickness, and it cannot at present be said that either is on the decrease.
(v) Major M. K. Afridi, I.M.S., visited Bahrain from January 19th to
30th and May 11th to 17th, and prepared a report on anti-malarial measures
for the island. His final report was received on the 7th December. Wavs
and means of carrying it into effect are under consideration. * ^
21 . Judicial. The total number of civil suits was 1,101 as compared
with 1,559 in 1937. The total number of criminal cases was 207 as comnared
with 291 in 1937. ^
22 . Activities of Germans. — (i) Herr Heins, a director of the Hansa
Company at Bremen, visited Bahrain for a few days in March He was
paying an official visit to Messrs. Gray, Mackenzie and Company Limited
who are the local agents for the Hanza Line. ’
(ii) Herr Hofinger of Messrs. Ford Motors Limited arrived in Bahrain
on the 20th August 1938. The object of this visit was stated to be in con
nection with the settlement of an
agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
commission question in dispute
between the Bahrain and Saudi Arabia agents. P
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This volume contains copies of the annual 'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ' prepared by 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. in Bushire and printed at the Government of India Press in New Delhi for the years 1926-1938.
These annual reports are divided up into a number of separate reports for different geographical areas, usually as follows:
- Administration Report for Bushire and Hinterland
- Administration Report of the Kerman and Bandar Abbas Consulates
- Administration Report for Fars
- Report on AIOC [Anglo-Iranian Oil Company] Southern Area
- Administration Report of the Kuwait Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
- Administration Report of the Bahrain Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
- Administration Report of the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
- Administration Report of the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , Muscat
These separate reports are themselves broken down into a number of sub-sections including the following:
- Visitors
- British interests
- Foreign Interests
- Local Government
- Military
- Communications
- Trade Developments
- Slavery
The reports are all introduced by a short review of the year written 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. .
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- 1 volume (510 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 512. These numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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