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'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf, 1945 [-1946]' [162r] (336/414)
The record is made up of 1 volume (203 folios). It was created in 1946-1947. 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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MEN.
Out-patients treated 32,396
In-patients treated 1,961
Major operations 518
Minor operations. 2,981
WOMEN AND CHILDREN .
Out-patients treated 9,709
In-patients treated 786
Major operations 331
SERVICE WARDS .
The Royal Air Force wards in the Bahrain
Government Hospital were handed back to the Bahrain
Government on the 15th of January, and all patients and
R.A.F. equipment in those wards were removed to the R.A.F.
Sick Quarters at Muharraq.
(v) QUARANTINE .
Dr. M.L.A. Steele was in charge as Quarantine
Medical Officer throughout the year.
Shipping. No change was made in the quarantine
arrangements for Manama, but all vessels calling at Sitra
now inform the Quarantine Medical Officer direct by radio
telegram of their last port of call and whether they have
any infectious disease on board. The system is working
well and messages from vessels intending to call at Sitra
are received regularly. 566 vessels called at Bahrain as
against 394 which called in 1945.
Muharraq Aerodrome, information of the arrival of
civil aircraft with passengers is sent to the Quarantine
Medical Officer. The actual time of arrival is phoned by
the Officer commanding, R.A.F., to the Passport Officer who,
in turn, informs the Quarantine Medical Officer.
B.O.A.C. Flying Boat Base. Manama . Cases of
illness among passengers disembarking at Bahrain or en route
to another destination are reported to the Quarantine Medical
Officer by telephone. A supply of yellow fever vaccine was
received during the year and an inoculation system organised.
Therp are. however, no quarantine arrangements for yellow
fever on the island and no person suffering from yellow fever
or arriving in a technically infected aircraft is allowed to
land.
infectiousDiseases. The station is still function
ing as an infectious Disease Hospital for the major infectious
diseases There were 21 cases of small pox and 8 cases of
chicken pox with 98 contacts treated and acconunodated during
1946 The incidence of small pox since 1941 has continued to
decline as the following figures show:-
Number of cases *
193 (September to December)
119
43
57
i 4
21 (including 4 imported cases)
/The station
Year .
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
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The volume contains typescript 'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the Year 1945' [1946] and typescript 'Administration Report of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for the Year 1946' [1947]. The reports are introduced by a review of the year 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. , Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and are divided into chapters containing individual reports on each of the agencies, consulates, and other administrative areas that made up 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. . Both reports conclude with a chapter containing 'notes on the working of quarantine on the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. '. They are signed by the local British official in charge.
The reports cover the following topics: British and non-British personnel; local affairs; local government and ruling families; transport and communications by land, sea, and air; posts and telegraphs; tribal and political matters; relations with local populations; cinemas; trade and economic matters; agriculture; finance; shipping and commerce; education; police and justice; security; military matters; propaganda; health and quarantine; statistics of temperature and rainfall; water; notable visitors; British interests; oil and oil companies; religious affairs; the pearl industry; locusts; Bedouins; date gardens; electricity; telephones; and related information.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (203 folios)
- Arrangement
There are lists of contents on the first page of both annual reports, on folios 1 and 109.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the third folio after the front cover (the first bearing text) and terminates at 198 on the third folio before the back cover (the last bearing text). The numbers are written in pencil, are enclosed in a circle, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. Foliation anomaly: ff. 28, 28A. The individual reports that make up the combined annual reports also have their own typescript foliation sequences appearing in the top centre of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio.
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- IOR/R/15/1/720
- Title
- 'Administration Reports of the Persian Gulf, 1945 [-1946]'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:28v, 28ar:28av, 29r:198v, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence