مجموعة ٩/٣٠(٢) "تقارير إدارية عن الخليج الفارسي - ١٩٤٥ -" [و‎‎٣‎٨] (١١٤٨/٧٥)

Siruspur, arrived from Tehran on tne 3rd July and remained
in cua r^e for txio rom^xuder of the y jar*
The new incumbent is not particularly active aJiu con-
-tents himself with merely pausing coi.pl^ints of tno public
to Tehran for disposal. It has been noticed that ordinary
telegrams take on an average from two to four days to reach
their destinations within the country, hot inlVequently some
of them never re^ch at all axid most telegrams are received
vith 15 to 20% of mutilations.
(j) Health Department .
Dr.iai Akbar Vakili held charge of the post of Medical
Officer, Kerm,u, during the year* The uospitals unaer his
direction are the Behdari Ustan, tne Behdari Shahdari ana the
dim^ristan-l-Mubarazeh (epidemic Hospital). The expenses of
the last naraed are met by public contributions. To cneck the
outbreak of serious epidemics doctors of txie health Department
were sent out regularly to all .areas of tno town, espocu^ily
of tno poor, to r and up all destitutes una beggars. The
medically fit were sent to tne Kerman asylum wnere tney wore
housed c*nd fea regularly. The sack .voro tr iatod In the himar-
-istan-i-uuo.rasoh a ad l^tor s nit to tne asylum. In this way
1 ? ca ses of typnus ana do of dxpntnerie which migi^t e asily
have became epidemic were detected and successfully treated.
Opeciu 1 delousing sections Aero also opened in tne hospital.
A Poor .ielief G; miaxttoe was also formed to assist the Health
Department in collecting poor people for segregation in the
^sylum.
(*0 .Aunio-iuali'y .
Aqai Arbabi was Head of the Municipality up to the
end of J uiua ry. As n jaerous complaints of his inefficuency
were made to the Ust. ndar, Aqai li.isirzadeh, former Head of the
Municipality, who had just returned from Tehran in tne capacity
of inspector of tne Ministry of tne interior, was instructed to
resume his old appointment as Shahrdar in addition to nis own
i uties. The change was greatly appreciated by tne public.
Aqai Mazirzadeh gained great popularity vaaongst the poorer
classes who were in great straits last wxnter, by arranging to
ha ve 2 tons of broa d flour/placed at their disposal at special
reduced prices and ^iso for arranging for charcoal and otuer
fuel to be sold at iiaif the market price to tnera. His efforts
were also tireless in keeping a strict watch on Government b^k-
-eries which were always adulterating the bread and giving
short weignt to the public, as well as on local butchers who
were equally dishonest. He succeeded in putting uiv^ny unob-
- tamable but ass Jiitiai cumiiioaicies on the market aixu last win-
-ter managed to bring down the ma ‘ket prices of cuu-rcoal from
;iais 15/- to tills 6 /- per kilo; bread from dials io/- to 15/-
per o kilos and mutton from nials 13U/. tp iiials iiO/- per 6
kil ^ •
In Oc-ober iiqai isfanuiari, tne Farmmuar, took
charge of tno post of Uhohroar in addition to his own duties,
from a qai uazirzadeh, until th? end of the year.
Throughout tne year the Municipality had been in
serious financial difficulties as th j allotuint due to them from
collections unuer the Mills pa ugh Hegulations foil f u % siiort ol
expectations, ii laries and wages of the staff were always 5 to <
6 months in arrears and towards the end of the year the wages of
menials were D months overuue. Strikes eiisued auu before mat-
-tors becurae critical it was decided to discharge do sweep :rs
in D -comber wno were paid their wages by public subscriptions.
10./-