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the man, who died after an hour and a half. Messre. Cox and Hicks were de
tained by the Road Guards until they heard of Bahman Khan's death, when
one of them shot Mr. Cox dead at a range of two yards y when all the Gruards
decamped.
The news reached Bushire on the morning of the 27th, and Major Nicholson,
I.M.S., 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. Surgeon, accompanied by Mr. Clarke of Messrs. Ziegler & Co.,
Bushire, and a Persian Naib, proceeded to the scene and performed autopsies
on the bodies. Yawar Ali Asghar Khan, Commanding the Troops in Bushire,
also proceeded as far as Borazjun. H. M.'s Consul, Shiraz motored down to
Churun, accompanied by a Persian officer, Yawar Qasim Khan, and collected
evidence regarding the incident. Mr. Cox was buried at Kunar Takhteh on the
28th, and H. M. 's Legation have taken up the matter.
_ An incident occurred on the 10th September at Ganaweh, when Haik
Azizian, a telegraph operator of the Indo-European, Telegraph Department,
stabbed Sub-Assistant Surgeon Sobhraj of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company at
night in the back. It appeared that the latter had gone to the house of the
former at night and entered a room in which Haik's wife was in bed. Haik
chased the Sub-Assistant Surgeon out and got a knife and stabbed him. The
Karguzar, Gulf Ports, investigated the case at our , request, but as the evidence
was scanty, he decided that no sentence should be passed, in view of Haik hav
ing already been under suspension for three months. The Sub-Assistant bur
geon was discharged from service by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and will
not be re-employed by them.
APPENDIX I.
Memorandum by Major M. A. Nicholson, I.M.S., 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. Surgeon and Chief
Quarantine Medical Officer in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , on the working of the Resi
dency Dispensary and Charitable Hospital, Bushire; and the Quarantine
Administration in the Gulf for the year 1924.
Personnel. —Major Pierpoint, I.M.S., went on leave March 26th, 1924.. Cap
tain Rooney, LM.S.,. the Senior Medical Officer* Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Ports (Military),
then officiated as 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. Surgeon in addition to his other duties, until the
arrival of Major M^., A. Nicholson,, I.M.S., who took over from him on 17th Sep
tember 1924.
The 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. Dispensary and Charitable Hospital, Bushire. —Owing to
the absence of a substantive 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. Surgeon for six months of. the year, very
little progress was possible in the task of converting this ins^tution from a Dis
pensary Basis to that of a Hospital.
Much necessary equipment, such as beds and bedding, etc., have yet to be
supplied; while the problem of the staff necessary for the care of In-Patients,
and of their quarters remains as yet unsettfed.
The following table shows, the work dona during, 1924,, in comparison witJi
the two previous years:—
1921.
1923..
1922.
Out-Door Attendances ..
18,747
10,776
13 461
In Patient Admiss'ons .. .. ' ....
105
164
110
Operations on In-Door Patients ... .► ...
91
M8
110
Minor Operations Out-Patients ..
1,075
516
834
In Patient work has been handicapped by want of facilities for treatment ;
but there has been a gratifying increase of work in the Out-Patient Department^
which augurs well for the future of the Institution as a Hospital as soon as it can
be put upon that basis.
The Quarantine Service. —With the Persian Quarantine the usual difficul
ties arose. At one time payments were six months in arrears. On the. Arab
side financial obligations were duly and promptly carried out.
Plague. —At Dibai on the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. Plague continued from the previous
year.
The outbreak was severe- but as there are no Quarantine or Medical Staff,
at this place, figures of cases and case mortality are not available.