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File 600/1905 Pt 1 'Aden Hinterland: Treaty with Dthala' [‎387r] (35/174)

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The record is made up of 1 item (86 folios). It was created in Feb 1904-Apr 1905. It was written in English and French. 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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3
Form “ A ”
Tentative Civil Hospital.
Monthly expenditure-
* Exclusive of rations.
Medical Officer in Charge
Hospital Assistant (a) ...
*1 Ward boy (£) ...
*1 Cook (c) (probable saving)
*1 Bhistie (probably not required at first)
*1 Sweeper
Drugs and dressings (Dr. Young’s estimate)
Food for patients (^) ( do. do. )
10 Cots, @ Re. 1 (e) (probable *aving)
Unforeseen charges (/*)
Rs.
100
10
10
8
Mil.
4
45
30
10
15
Total
Explanatory of letters.
(a) Over and above his ordinary salary, compounder, therefore, un
necessary;
(b) Used as Arabic Interpreter.
(c) At first probably not required. Eelatives of in-patients will do the
needful —vide also letter (d).
(<0 A variable quantity. In the Keith-Falconer Mission Dispensary at
Shaikh Othman, Aden, the total number of indoor and out
door patients treated in the year 1904 were 10,890, of which 451
only were in-door —vide also letter (e). This figure represents
rather the cost of extra comforts.
(e) Not indispensable : mats placed on raised platforms might be sub
stituted, Bought as required.
(/) May include blankets, coverings, earthen pots, etc.
From— Captain H. F. Jacob, Political Officer, D’thala,
To—The First Assistant Resident, Aden.
Some measures for treating the starving sick in this place are absolutely
imperative. I would urge the necessity of making a beginning at once in
anticipation of Government sanction. In my letter No. Ill, dated 2nd April
last, I have sketched a plan which it was recommended should be given a four
months’ trial. I do not now ask to inaugurate any treatment on eren so small
a scale as that, but I have put up two condemned E. P. tents to serve as a
hospital.
I have daily applications for treatment, chiefly ulcer cases. These I send
to Captain McPherson, I. M. S., S. M. O. Operations are often necessary, and
afterwards the patients are sent to me till convalescent, when they are dis
charged. Daily dressings are requisite, and for this purpose a hospital assistant
(Sd.) H. F. JACOB, Captain t
Political Officer, D’thala,
No. 206, dated the 22 nd May 3905.

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Part 1 of the file relates to the 1905 revision of the treaty with Shaif bin Sef bin Abdul Hadi bin Hasan [Shā’if ibn Sayf al-‘Amirī], Amir of Dthala (also sometimes written Dthali) [al-Ḍāli‘].

The correspondents include:

The correspondence discusses a number of matters integral to the new treaty, including:

  • the deployment of a permanent Political Officer in Dthala;
  • the need for an Arab levy to patrol the frontier with Ottoman Turkish territory;
  • increasing the Amir's stipend and granting him a gun salute;
  • relations between the Amir and the Kotaibi tribe.

Folio 382 is the revised treaty, signed 28 November 1905 (ratified 8 February 1905).

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