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'Administration Reports 1925-1930' [‎48r] (100/418)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (205 folios). It was created in 1926-1931. 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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The season was a remarkably bad one, the catch being small and the market
bad. During the early part of the seas.on too, the divers suffered more than
normally from colds and fever.
Motor Transport concession.— In the end of April the Shaikh granted a
Motor Transport Concession to Saiyid Hamid Bey an-Naqib, by which in return
for making and keeping up the road from Jahrah to the 'Iraq frontier at Safwan,
he has a monopoly of the carrying of passengers and goods by motor car for a
period of fifty years.
The making of the road will present no great difficulties, and, even without
a road, a ear can get through without trouble by making slight detours from
the ordinary camel track, and the journey from Zubair to Kuwait has been done
in six hours.
After obtaining this, concession from the Shaikh of Kuwait Saiyid Hamid
Bey an-Naqib applied to the Government of 'Iraq for permission to improve
the section of the road from Safwan to Zubair, and to run his cars thereon, but
there was some delay before he obtained this.
By the end of the year nothing further had been done, but Saiyid Hamid
Bey had returned to Kuwait from Basrah, and was hoping shortly to go out
into camp, and survey and lay out the road.
Medical. —The health of the town was good during the year, except that
there was an epidemic of small-pox during the latter portion. Only two_ cases
of small-pox were brought to the Charitable Dispensary. Both were children,
and when their parents were told that they were suffering from small-pox,
they took them away and did not return. Three cas.es of suppuration of the
elbow joints, due to small-pox, were brought to the Charitable Dispensary for
treatment. Very few of the local inhabitants availed themselves of vaccination
against small-pox. ' '
There has been no improvement in the sanitation of the town, which re
mains distinctly primitive.
3,645 out-patients, including 799 women and 878 children, were treated in
the Charitable Dispensary during the year, as, against 4,769 in 1924. 225 minor
operations were performed.
On the men's side of the American Mission Hospital 2,976 patients were
treated, and on the women's side 3,516, making a total of 6,492, as compared
with 6.457 in 1924. 566 surgical operations were performed, and 244 patients
were admitted into the wards.
No steamers or sailing vessels were placed in quarantine throughout the
year.
American Mission. —Dr. and Mrs. Mylrea were in Kuwait throughout the
year, except that Mrs. Mylrea accompanied Miss Scardefield, who had been
dangerously ill since November 1924, to America, leaving in June and return
ing O alone in November. Rev. E. E. and Mrs. Calverley, with their children
and their governess. Miss Robertson, went to India for three months during
the summer, but were in Kuwait during the res.t of the year. Miss Van Pelt
was present throughout the year. Dr. and Mrs. Harrison and children were in
Kuwait from the beginning of the year until 19th May.
Rev. D. Dykstra from 'Amarah visited Kuwait at the Shaikh's invitation
at the end of January to install a new electric light plant for him in his house
at Ras-al-'Ajuzah. He came again in the latter part of March in connection
with the same plant.
The Annual Meeting of the American Mission was held in Kuwait in the
early part of November, and was attended by a large number of Missionaries
from other stations. Khan Sahib 'Abdig Latif, the Director of Customs, put
a house and garden of his situated near the Mission at their disposal.
Visits. —Major M. A. Nicholson, T,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. , visited Kuwait in R. I. M. S.
* " Lawrence " on 21st July.
Captain E. J. Headlam, C.M.G., D.S.O., A.D.C., R.I.M., Director, Royal
Indian Marine and Principal Naval Transport Officer, East Indies, visited
Kuwait in R. I. M. S. " Lawrence " on 23rd November.

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The volume includes 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 1925 (GIPS, 1926); 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 1926 (GIPD, 1927); 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 1927 (GIPD, 1928); 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 1928 (GIPS, 1929); [ 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 1929 ] (GIPS, 1930); and 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 1930 (GIPS, 1931); . The volume bears some manuscript corrections.

The Administration Reports contain separate reports, arranged in chapters, on each of the principal Agencies, Consulates, and Vice-Consulates that made up the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. 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. , and provide a wide variety of information, including review 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. ; details of senior British administrative personnel and foreign representatives; local government; military, naval, and air force matters; political developments; trade and economic matters; shipping; aviation; communications; notable events; medical reports; the slave trade; and meteorological details.

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1 volume (205 folios)
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The Reports are bound in chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.

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Foliation: the foliation system in use commences at 1 on the front cover and continues through to 207 on the back cover. The sequence is written in pencil, enclosed in a circle, and appears 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.

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