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'Administration Reports 1905-1910' [80v] (165/616)
The record is made up of 1 volume (304 folios). It was created in 1907-1911. 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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10
ADMINISTRATION REPORT OF THE PERSIAN GULP
manifested on different occasions by his prompting the local authorities to enquire
into and question any trifling innovation made by the clerk in charge. The latter
has for the greater part of the year lived in tents pitched close to the condemned
cable house, whence he transmits and receives messages for the Consulate only.
Public Health and Quarantine. —No serious * epidemic has occurred in the
district, but cases of small-pox have been very common in the town. Malarial
fever has been more than usually prevalent among the native inhabitants and
there has been no diminution in the number of cases of guinea-worm, caused
it is thought, by the indifferent water supply.
The Charitable Dispensary has continued in the charge of the Quarantine
Medical Officer and has doubtless proved of considerable benefit to the poorer
inhabitants of the town. At the same time, the advisabilty of placing the
equipment for a charitable dispensary in the hands of a subordinate who is not
precluded from taking fees and engaging in private practice, is thought to he
open to question, while the fact that in this case, the individual is the Quarantine
Medical Officer and as such is the servant of the Persian Sanitary Administra-
tion, has the effect of concealing the source of the benevolence from those
visiting the dispensary and thus there results no political influence. However
with the completion of the new Consulate buildings and dispensary and the
appointment of a Hospital Assistant to reside at the Consulate, these defects will
disappear automatically.
Assistant Surgeon Brumby was in charge of the local quarantine up to the
3rd September, when he was relieved by Assistant Surgeon Montgomery.
Both at Bunder Abbas and Lingah, the Quarantine Medical Officers have
latterly experienced considerable obstruction from the Russian Consul, in the
discharge of their duties, the Russian's attitude being evidently inspired with the
hope that any action taken by him would serve as an attack upon the British
Administration of Gulf quarantine generally. On the 27th December, M. Belayew
boarded the Russian S. S. Trouver in advance of the Quarantine Medical Officer
and acting on orders received from the Russian Consul, prevented Assistant Surgeon
Montgomery from boarding the ship and carrying out his duties. Later on, acting
under instructions from the Russian Consul, the Captain of the Russian S. S.
Euphrates refused to accept a certificate of pratique from the Quarantine Officer,
unless such certificate were rendered in French or Persian. Early in March a
Russian Consulate employe boarded the mail S. S. Madura, notwithstanding the
fact that she was flying the quarantine flag. On the deck, he was confronted by a
quarantine guard whereupon he struck and abused the latter and then returned
to his boat. On the Assistant Surgeon requesting the Russian Consul to send his
man to quarantine he was met by a blank refusal and a counter-charge of assault
was proffered against the guard. Instances such as these, all point to the necessity
for a commissioned officer being placed in charge of the local quarantine, an official
who would be m a position to enforce the regulations and to prevent the administra-
tion of the Gulf quarantine being held up to ridicule and scored off through the
medium of a man who by reason of his meagre education can hardly be expected to
display that firmness and initiative so essential in order to combat such an expe
rienced obstructionist as is the present Russian Consul.
Slave Trade. Out of 130 applications for manumission, 89 received freedom
cerancates at Bunder Abbas and 26 certificates were forwarded by the Consulate
lor delivery to the slaves who had taken refuge in the British
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
at Lingah.
There were no instances of direct slave-dealing in Bunder Abbas or its
immediate vicinity, but there was one case of a suspicious nature in which the
onaikn ol Henjam appeared to be involved ; unfortunately, however, the informant
disappeared while the matter was under investigation and no definite proof could
alterWards be obtained.
Henjam Affairs —Much perturbation and unrest existed among the Arabs of
enjam a e commencement of the year, owing to the expressed intention of the
Customs authorities to build a Customs-House on the Island. The work was.
owever, na y abandoned, the Customs perforce contenting themselves with a
mat hut established within the limits of the British Telegraph Station. The local
ustoms Mudir has not ventured to interfere in any way with the Arab village and
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The volume contains Administration Report on 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. for 1905-1906 (Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1907); Administration Report on 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 Maskat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for 1906-1907 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1908); Administration Report of 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 the Maskat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for 1907-1908 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1909); Administration Report of 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 the Maskat Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. for April-December1908 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1909); Administration Report of 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. for the Year Ending 31st December 1909 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1911); and Administration Report of 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. for the Year 1910 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1911).
The Reports contain reviews 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. and chapters on each of the consulates, agencies, and other administrative regions that made up the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. 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. . The Reports contain information on political developments, territorial divisions, local administration, principal tribes, British personnel and appointments, trade and commerce, naval and marine matters, communications, judicial matters, archaeology, pearl fisheries, the slave trade, arms and ammunition traffic, medical matters and public health, oil, notable visitors and events, meteorological data, and related topics.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 306 on the back cover. These numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and can be found 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. The following folios need to be folded out to be read: ff. 40, 261.
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