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Coll 30/9 'Persian Gulf: Administration Reports 1926-1938' [330v] (665/1028)
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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It is interesting to note that the various girders supporting the roof are f
French or Belgium manufacture and were supplied by Messrs. Andrew Weir a °I
Company of Basrah, a British Firm. n
(e) On 3rd November Dr. Storm arrived from Muscat via Basrah.
(/) The Reverend Mr. Van Ess accompanied by Mrs. Van Ess and Mr. Moerdvh
arrived from Basrah on 10th November. " ^
(g) The Reverend Mr. Pennings and the Reverend Mr. Haken arrived from Bah
rain on 10th November.
Note. —The annual meeting wh ch is held every year at one of the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Ports teoV nl
Kuwait between 10th and 30th of November. ' a
At the conclusion of the meeting the various persons who had come up for it
left for their respective stations.
(h) Dr. C. S. G. Mylrea, O.B.E., left for Basrah on 19th November and returned
on 20th November.
(?) On 13th December the youngest child of the Reverend DeJong died sudden
ly from the effects of pneumonia.
As the local Christian Cemetery was quite an unfit place in its existing state to
take a burial, the parents decided to convey the body to Basrah bv car for inter
ment. The
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.
made all necessary arrangements with the Iraq
authorities through His Britannic Majesty’s Consul, Basrah, and the body was got
across the frontier with a minimum of trouble and formality.
(j) The fanatical agitation raised against the Mission early in the year has
been dealt with under Head Foreign Interests. (Paragraph VI).
XVI. —Q uarantine.
(а) Though no epidemic of any kind occurred in Kuwait during 1931 there was
a severe outbreak of cholera in epidemic form in the neighbouring country of
Iraq, principally in the town of Basrah. Three cases were reported m Basrah on
28th July from the S.S. “ Kohistan ” of which two died. No further cases occurred
till the night of 7th August, but from then onwards the epidemic raged with great
severity till the 10th November.
(б) Kuwait being in communication by land and sea with Iraq and being the
gateway to Eastern and Central Arabia, quarantine restrictions were immediatelv
introduced'and rigidly enforced as a protection not only to the Principahty and town
of Kuwait but to prevent the infection being carried into Arabia, where dire results
would have been inevitable.
(c) C ommunication with Iraq by land is by motor cars, and as many of the in
habitants of this town visit Basrah on business, and as the epidemic occurred during
the height of the date season, cars were running to and for daily. Such passen
gers had to be inspected, their inoculation certificates seen through, and vigorous
measures adopted to keep the town from becoming infected through th£m. Some
times as many as 4 carloads of passengers had to be examined at once and as the
Quarantine Station is situated a mile outside the town wall, this necessitated
frequent visit by the Quarantine Medical Officer in the height of the summer with
the temperature reading 117°F.
(d) In addition the sea route held further possibilities of an infection being
brought into the town, as steamers, launches and dhows constantly ply between the
two ports. The Quarantine Medical Officer inspected and imposed restrictions on all
steamers, launches and dhows arriving from Basrah, and when one realizes how
many sailing vessels put into Kuwait in a day, one can guess the immense amount
of work that falls to the lot of a conscientious Quarantine Medical Officer if a town
like Kuw ait to be kept free from a disease of the nature of cholera.
(e) Tne
writer
The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping.
has no hesitation in saying that if the Quarantine Medical
Officer ha a not carried out his duties as rigidly and conscientiously as he did, the
disease would certainly have found its way into the town, and would inevitably
have spread into the interior with considerable loss, of life.
(/) C holera is almost always.endemic in Iraq and an epidemic very often breaks
out in \ arious forms of intensity during the summer months of each year. This isa
standing menace to contiguous places like Kuwait, and one does not care to think
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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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