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Lingah .—80 Steamships with a total tonnage of 168,166, comprising
71 British and 9 German were registered as having entered and cleared with
cargo.
Political.
There was no change in the hard and fast policy pursued by the Con
sulate of maintaining friendly relations with the local administration and
adopting a sympathetic attitude towards the local population.
The abrogation of the Capitulations did not evoke special enthusiasm,
if any, in this town, and the 10 th of May passed unnoticed. Is T o demonstra
tions or celebrations were held as in other parts of Persia. The attitude
of certain officials, however, has been decidedly anti-British since the new
order of things, and they are inclined to be overbearing and arbitrary in
their dealings with British subjects.
The revival of the BAHRAIN, BASIDU and HEN JAM questions
occasioned outbreaks of Anglo-phobia amongst the Nationalist members of
the administration and one or two merchants.
The usual farce connected with the election of a single Deputy for
BANDAR ABBAS to the seventh Mejliss at TEHRAN wasi enacted in
Jiine. The self-respecting Persian takes no interest whatever in such pro
ceedings, and it is now necessary to import an outsider to canvass for the
candidate who offers himself for election and who is generally a stranger
to this District and moreover a nominee of the Central Government.
Quarantine.
Bandar Abbas .—Lieutenant D. L. MACKAY, I.M.D., who had held
the post of Quarantine Medical Officer for the past seven years was trans
ferred to MUSCAT as Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. Surgeon and succeeded by Assistant Surgeon
J. E. SWEENEY, from BUSHIRE on the 16th February.
The latter was relieved of his duties by Dr. MOHAMED ALI KHAN
MUAYED HIKMET, a doctor from TEHRAN, on the 1st of August, on
the Persian Government deciding to replace all British Quarantine Medical
Officers in tjie Gulf by Persian doctors.
Shortly after assuming charge, the Persian Quarantine Medical Officer
caused the Sanitary Council at TEHRAN to declare the ports of BOMBAY
and KARACHI as being cholera-infected and contrary to the requirements
of the Paris and Venice Sanitary Conventions compelled the British India
Slow Mail Steamers to go direct to BUSHIRE for pratique,
ing at BANDAR ABBAS or other Persian ports ^ from BOMBAY.
Later the mails only were allowed to be landed till the end of October, when
under orders from TEHRAN the “Paris” rules were applied to vessels
arriving from infected ports.
Epidemics. —The district was free from epidemics, with the exception
of small-pox which is endemic in many parts.
Medical.
Town Charitable Dispensary .—This was in charge of a British Medical
Officer throughout the year, and continued to function satisfactorily.
The number of out-door patients treated, as compared with the two
preceding years, was as follows: —
In 1928 ..
In 1927 ..
In 1926 ..
7,620
6,528
7,450
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