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‘Administration Report of Aden for the year ending 31st March 1928 (With Appendices)’ [252r] (45/83)
The record is made up of 1 item (47 folios). It was created in 1929. 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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Annual administration report of the Aden 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. , providing a summary record of the main events and developments in the administration of the Settlement of Aden and the Island of Perim during the financial year 1927-28. The report was printed by the Manager, Government of India Press, Delhi, in 1929.
The report is divided into the following sections, some of which are further divided into sub-headings:
- Letter from the Resident and Commander-in-Chief, Aden, to the Chief Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay, dated 24-25 September 1928, submitting the report (f 228), and including: Change in Office
- ‘CHAPTER II. GENERAL AND POLITICAL.’ (f 228), consisting of: General; Administrative Machinery
- ‘CHAPTER III.’ [ADMINISTRATION OF LAND] (f 228)
- ‘CHAPTER IV. PROTECTION.’ (ff 229-231), consisting of: Legislation; Land Police; Cases taken up by the Police and their results; Conduct of the Police; Harbour Police; Deportation of Vagrants; Criminal Justice; Cases tried by the Magistrates and their results; Cases tried by Sessions Court; Appeals; Revisional Proceedings; Lunatics [people experiencing mental health problems]; Extradition; Inquests; Marine Cases; Civil Justice; Suits dealt with; Execution of decrees; Appeals; Revisions; Administration of Estates; Certificates of heirship, etc.; Receipts and expenditure; Workmen’s compensation; Rent Controller; Prisons; Registration; Bills of Exchange; Municipal Administration; Marine; Aden Port Trust
- ‘CHAPTER V. PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION.’ (ff 231-232), consisting of: Weather and Crops; Wages and Labour; Prices and principal grains; Forest and Horticulture; Trade and Manufacture; Perim Pearl Fishery; Public Works; Post Office
- ‘CHAPTER VI. REVENUE AND FINANCE.’ (ff 232-233), consisting of: Receipts and Payments; Local Funds; Currency Notes; Sovereigns; Supply Bills; Cash Remittances; The Temporary Currency Chest; Small Silver; Nickel coins; Income-tax; Stamps; Abkari [department dealing with fees and duties on alcohol and cannabis]; Opium; Salt; Customs; Non-Dangerous Petroleum; Dangerous Petroleum; Drugs; Explosives; Transhipment; Carbide of calcium; Arms
- ‘CHAPTER VII. MEDICAL.’ (ff 233-235), consisting of: Births and Deaths; Hospitals and Dispensaries; European General Hospital; Infectious disease block (European Ward) at Hedjuff; Bai Jerbai Charitable Dispensary; Civil Hospital, Crater; King Edward VII Charitable Dispensary; Grant-in-Aid Dispensary, Maala; Infectious Diseases Hospital, Maala; Settlement Dispensary, Sheikh Othman [Ash Shaikh Outhman]; Leper Asylum [hospital for people affected by leprosy or Hansen’s Disease]; Infectious Diseases Hospital, Shaikh Othman; The Keith Falconer Mission Hospital of the United Free Church of Scotland, Shaikh Othman; Health Department; Vaccinations; Small Pox; Plague; Inoculations; Rats; Port Health Department
- ‘CHAPTER VIII. EDUCATION.’ (ff 235-236), consisting of: Schools for Boys; Schools for Girls; Special Institutions
- ‘CHAPTER IX. MISCELLANEOUS.’ (f 236), consisting of: Press and Newspaper; Library; Public Conveyance; Public Roads; Lighting; Aden Railway
- ‘GENERAL REMARKS.’ (f 236).
The remainder of the item (ff 237-271) consists of appendices to the report.
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- IOR/V/10/571/6
- Title
- ‘Administration Report of Aden for the year ending 31st March 1928 (With Appendices)’
- Pages
- 226r:240r, 241r:242r, 243r, 244r, 245r, 246r, 247r:250r, 251r, 252r, 253r:267r, 268r, 269r:272v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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