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'Adminisistration [Administration] Reports 1931-1935' [‎13v] (26/416)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (206 folios). It was created in 1932-1936. 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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APPENDIX I.
Note on the working of 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, Bushire, for the year 1931.
Major H. J. H. Symons, I.M.S., held charge of the appointment of 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
from 1st January to 9th August and from 21st October to 31st December 1931.
First Class Assistant Surgeon M. L. A. Steele, I.M.D., was in sub-charge of the Dispensary
from 1st January to 25th June and from llth November to 31st December 1931. Second
Class Assistant Surgeon R. Easey, I.M.D., officiated as sub-charge of 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. Dispen
sary during the absence on leave of Assistant Surgeon M. L. A. Steele and during the absence on
leave of Major H. J. H. Symons, Assistant Surgeon Easey also held charge of the appointment
of 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.
Sub-Assistant Surgeon Jemadar Mohammed Ali Najmi was in sub-charge of the out-patient
department from 1st January until 23rd November 1931, from which date the post was
abolished.
Climatically the first ten months of the year showed little departure from the normal but
malaria seemed more prevalent than in 1930, though fewer cases of the cerebral variety were
met with than in that year.
The number of in-patient and out-door attendances, in comparison with those of 1930
^T-e as follows
In-patients, Out-patients, Operations,
1930 .. .. .. .. 67 9,346 235
1931 .. 49 13,136 279
From these figures it will be seen that there was a considerable increase in the number of
out-patient attendances. This increase was in part due to the occurrence of a larger number
of malaria and non-malarial fevers, in part due to an epidemic of influenza in the final six weeks
of the year and again in part due to including attendances of the staff and their families of the
P. W. D., E. & M. Section at Dastak, Prior to March 1931, these individuals attended the
Dispensary of the Indo-European Telegraph Department at Reshire and their numbers were
not included in previous annual reports. Since 1st March 1931 these employees have been
attended to by 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. Surgeon.
The total of operations increased by 44 in comparison with 1930, but operations classified
as major operations fell from 69 to 43, The absence of 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. Surgeon for two months
may be considered as the principal cause of this decrease.
Failure of the usual winter rains in November and December and a few days of unusually
cold weather with a biting north wind was a contributory cause of a severe epidemic of influenza
during the last six weeks of the year. During this epidemic a, very high percentage of cases of
influenza developed Lobar and Broncho-pneumonia, Owing to the early contraction of Lobar-
pneumonia by the hospital compounder, who eventually happily recovered, a great strain was
put on the whole of the medical staff during these six weeks of 1931 and, it may be added, the
first six weeks of 1932.
In the town the epidemic really created alarm and pneumonia carried off several hundreds
of the aged and infirm, who, ill-equipped with clothing which could give any measure of warmth
housed in buildings more fitted to let in air than to keep out piercing north winds, and enfeebled
by recurrent attacks of malaria throughout their lives, were on that account unable to put
up sufficient resistance to so virulent an infection.
With reference to the note appended to last year’s report concerning the Bushire Charitable
Hospital it may be recorded that one hears many complaints against the inadequacy of the
treatment accorded by the present officer in charge, Muniri, and his staff. The municipality are
so dissatisfied that they have debated opening a municipal dispensary on the grounds that no
medicines are to be had at the Charitable Hospital. They have also considered offering salaried
employment for some hours a day to Sub-Assistant Surgeon Jemadar Mohammed Ali
Najmi, I.M.D., (Retired), who is now carrying out private practice in Bushire, though the
nationalist element in the Baladieh is opposed to employing a foreigner.
Considering the present conditions of medical education in Persia it is not understood
from where the nationalist elements in the Baladieh ponsider they would get anyone more satis
factory An East India Company trading post. than Muniri apd it is probable that the proposal will come to nought.

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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 1931 (Simla, Government of India Press: 1932); 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 1932 (Simla: Government of India Press, 1933); 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 1933 (Simla: Government of India Press, 1934); 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 1934 (Simla: Government of India Press, 1935); 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 1935 (New Delhi: Government of India Press, 1936). The Report for 1935 shows some manuscript corrections.

The Administration Reports are divided into chapters relating to the various Agencies, Consulates, and other administrative areas that made up the Bushire 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. . Within the chapters there are sections devoted to 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. ; lists of senior personnel; foreign representatives; local government; military and marine affairs; movements of Royal Navy ships; aviation; political developments; slavery; trade and commerce; medical reports and sanitation; meteorological reports and statistics; communications; naval matters; the Royal Air Force; notable events; and related information.

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1 volume (206 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 208 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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