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Oentre, assisted by Miss M.' E. RoMMon^throuXul the^yea? "Th^steS
for the last lour years are as follows : . it siaiihtics
1931.
1932.
1933.
1934.
Number of confinements
.. 76
92
89
69
Visits to Patients’ homes
1,614
1,936
2,049
1,251
Patients attending centre
347
321
274
284
Repeat visits
1,125
1,125
867
793
There is close eo-operation between the Women's Hospital and the Welfare
. entre, which is under the control of the lady doctor. All doubtful cases are
mm seen antenatally by the doctor and advice is given.
T\vo combined antenatal and post-natal clinics are held weeklv one of
which is specially for carpet weavers, and children of all ages attend it. At
these meetings pregnant women are seen, and advice is given to mothers.
Th ere are twm senior and three junior workers attached to the Welfare
Centre, the three juniors have recently commenced their midwifery trainin'-',
two workers passed the C. M. S. doctor’s examination (equivalent to C. M. B?)
m September 1934 and another was to retake it in January 1935.
5. The Anglo-Persian Oil Company Limited. —The Company’s business
m Kerman continued to improve satisfactorily and the Russian stocks of
kerosine and petrol v^ere exhausted by the middle of the year.
Karly in October Dr. Harris and Mr. Falcon, the Companv's geologists from
Abadan, arrived in Kerman and left for- Bam, whence they intended to proceed
on survey to Persian Baluchistan and Mekran. After being kept waiting at
Bam for many days, however, they were obliged to return to Kerman and leave
or Isiahan, as the military authorities refused to furnish the necessary escort
owing, apparently, to the disturbances in Persian Baluchistan.
Mirza Abdul Hussein Khan Sadri (Seif-ul-Mamalik), the company’s re
presentative in Kerman, was succeeded by Mirza Jalil Khan Suhai of Shiraz in
the month of October.
6. Carpet Trade, etc. —The exports in Kerman carpets and tribal rugs,
expressed in thousands of Rials, during 1934 and the three preceding years, were
as follows (The rate of exchange at the end of the year was Rials 84 to £1),
1931. 1932. 1933. 1934.
Kerman carpets and rugs .. .. .. 12,079 8,591 11,540 11,751
Tribal rugs .. .. .. .. 888 1,200 930 940
In spite of the above figures, which only show the export side, the period
under report v T as the worst known for many years, so far as the carpet industry
in itself is concerned. Prices began to fail steadily as the year advanced and
the majority of weavers could not get new orders when they had completed their
contracts with the various firms.
By the end of the year the price of Kerman carpets had come down between
20 to 25 per cent, while the fall in the prices of tribal rugs was even more,
compared with those prevailing in the beginning of the year.
The proposal for the formation of a company, with a capital of 50 million
Rials, for the monopoly of carpet trade, which was discussed at Tehran at the
end of December, has fallen through, owing, apparently, to its being considered
impracticable.
Wool Carding Plant.-Whe machinery for the wool carding plant, ordered
- the recently-organised company, called the ‘ Sherkat-i-S.hami arrived irom
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