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'Administration Reports 1925-1930' [‎68v] (141/418)

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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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M edical.
Assistant Surgeon R. Holmes has been in charge of the Vic
toria Memorial Hospital throughout the year. He has also acted as Medi
cal Adviser to the Shaikh in regard to the Levy Corps and Police Forces.
He has administrative charge of the Hospital boat maintained for the div
ing fleet and of the dispensary at Muharraq.
One hundred and sixty-five indoor patients and four thousand nine
hundred and seventy-one outdoor cases were treated in the Victoria Memo
rial Hospital during the year. Nine hundred and twenty-seven patients
were treated at the Muharraq dispensary.
The Sub-Assistant Surgeon in charge of Muharraq Dispensary accom
panied the pearling fleet in the hospital boat during the season. The Hos
pital boat made four trips to the pearl banks as under : —
Voyage 1 from 39-5-^6 to 23 -6-26. Cases treated . . .85
Voyage 2 from 30-6-'26 to 26-7-26. „ ... 100
Voyage 3 from 31-7-26 to 22-8-26. „ ... 121
Voyage 4 from 31 -8 -26 to 29-9-26. ,, „ . . . ]9l
Total
. 497
The general health was good, though the American Medical Mission
reports that Bronchial Asthma during f!ie winter assumed the proportions
of an epidemic.
Bahrein was free from plague during the year.
During the early part of the year Dr. Dame was in charge of the Mason
Memorial Hospital, maintained by the Dutch Reformed Church of America.
hen he proceeded on leave the duties of Medical Officer were taken over
by Dr. P. W. Harrison.
A new Hospital for women and children was opened during the year.
Patients treated during the year in the Mason Memorial Hospital numbered
14,000 of whom four thousand were indoor patients. The total dispensary
treatments were thirty thousand. There were four hundred and ninety-
nine major operations and four hundred and seventy-three minor operations
and two hundred and five operations to the eye.
British Interests.—The Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. Guard which was found by the I/] 6th
Punjab Regiment left for India on 24th March and Bahrein Levies took
over the duties of the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. Guard until the disbandment of the Lew
Corps. The Guard was subsequentlv supplied first by sailors of His
Majesty's Ships "Triad", "Cyclamen" and "Crocus" and later by the
3/16th Punjab Regiment, who remained in Bahrein till the close of the
year.
CHAPTER X.
ADMINISTRATION REPORT OF THE KUWAIT POLITICAL
AGENCY An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. FOR THE YEAR 1926.
P ersonnel.
Major J. C. More, D.S.O., held charge of the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. throughout
the year.
Assistant Surgeon J. W. Woodsell, M.C., I.M.D., was in Medical Charge
of the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. and Charitable Dispensary, and performed the duties of Quar
antine Medical Officer from the beginning of the year till the 11th April,
when he was relieved by Dr. C. S. G. Mylrea, O.B.E., of the American
Mission. On 21st April Sub-Assistant Surgeon A. C. Malwade, I.M.D., took
over the duties of Quarantine Medical Officer and Medical Officer in charge
of the Charitable Dispensary. Dr. Mylrea remained in Medical Charge of
the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. until the end of the year, except from the 20th July till
the 20th October, when Dr. E. T. Calverley, also of the American Mission,
performed these duties.

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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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