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Coll 30/9 'Persian Gulf: Administration Reports 1926-1938' [330r] (664/1028)
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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XIV.—Medical
1. Health of the Town. — (a) Various factors have had an adverse effect on
the health of the inhabitants during the year under review. Trade depression,
failure of the Pearl trade, etc., denuded the town of a great deal of money
thereby causing distress, insufficiency of food and the necessaries of life and other
means to combat illnesses. Many persons who would otherwise have been well
able to put up a good fight, succumbed readily while others were constantly
filing. Infants suffered most.
(6) Tuberculosis, the usual “ toll taker ” had a greater sway than previously
and there does not seem to be any real hope of combating this scourge for many
reasons, chief of which are the habits, customs and mode of living of the poor,
any attempts to change which would be at present futile.
(c) Infantile diseases.—I nfants and small children suffer very much, and
during the year under review, 1931, were even deprived of the slender chances
they possessed owing to lack of food and clothing. Some died of sheer want
among the very poor, while disease carried off others more rapidly than would nor
mally be the case. Infant welfare and Hygiene are an almost closed book to the
mothers. The vast majority are ignorant and do not seem to care nor interest
themselves in matters concerning the welfare of their children.
{d) Common diseases were those of the eyes, ears, bowels and skin and here
again there is no dimunition in the numbers or spread of these diseases ov/ing to
the absolute lack of personal hygiene and manner of living, combined with extreme
casualness in the treatment of these complaints.
2. Sanitation. —The Municipality have been so anxious to show results in
town improvements such as road widening and repairing, etc., that their efforts
in other directions have not been so good as might have been expected. Greater
energy in hygiene matters might have been tried.
•3. Water.~~As in previous years, this was brought by dhows in wooden tanks
from the Shatt al Arab near Fao, and was distributed to the houses by means of
skins and kerosene oil tins, the cost varying with the supply and demand and
weather conditions,
4. Epidemics. —None.
5. Charitable Dispensary.—Total number treated during the year—
Men
.. 3,601
Women ,.
.. 4,167
Male children
.. 2,500
Female children
.. 2,345
Total
.. 12,613
The Dispensary is now accommodated in 3 very nice rooms, with a couple of
Store rooms. A separate dressing room and separate waiting rooms for men
and women are improvements which make for better attention, and a more
cheerful atmosphere, than has been the case in the past.
XV.— The American Mission.
[а) On 27th February the American Colony were honoured by the visit of the
United States Consul in Baghdad. He stayed with them for three days (see para
graph VI).
(б) On 25th July The Reverend J. Van Ess accompanied by Miss Rachael
Jackson arrived from Basrah. They returned on 31st July.
(c) On 11th September Dr. Miss Barney returned from leave in Europe.
(d) The 15th September saw the practical completion of the new Mission
Church and School Rooms which were started in March 1931.
The building was finished off by the end of the year, and is a good substantial
one built to catch every breeze.
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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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:511v, 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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