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Coll 30/9(2) 'Persian Gulf Annual Administration Reports' [4r] (9/88)
The record is made up of 1 file (41 folios). It was created in 1 Jun 1949-29 Jun 1949. 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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I* nGElCY OFFICIALS n (December 31st).
Political Kgent •
Mr. Rj:. F.llison.
Medical Officer.
Captain A.G.T. Matthews.
2. iifcDICAL .
(a) . Saiyid Tariq bin Taiaur, President of the Municipal Council has done a
good deal to improve the standard of public hygiene, and there was a pronounced
improvement over the last year. DJ).T• has been used to some extent in the
Health Department’s anti-malaria scheme.
(b) The
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
Hospital remained open throughout the year.
There ms a great Increase in the work carried out by the Hospital
owing to the absence of the staff from the American Mission Hospital at Muttra
which was closed from September onwards. As the Assistant
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
Surgeon was
withdrawn in Iky, 1948 all this extra work fell on the Shoulders of Dr. Matthews.
Ififeje of attendances.
mi.
door. 30,302. 23,981.
Average daily attendance 83. 69.41.
In door 281. 228.
Died in Hospital 9 . , 6 .
fiiaeageg. Malaria. 4109 in 1948 as compared with 6007 in 1947. Though loss in
%
1948 the illness was severe and in many oases Cerebral symptoms supervened with
fatfc.1 results. Anti—Malaria treatment was given with Quinine, He peering
Arsenic. Paludrine mu given as a preventative for the first tin*, and where
patients took their treatment seriously good results were attained. Anti-Malaria
measures improved under the control of the Muscat Municipality and the
inhabitants are yearly becoming more accustomed to preventative measures.
Ulcers, boils, skin, eye and ear diseases and Tonailitis are at
least as frequent as heretofore. The summer sets up s cycle of disease events.
First prickly heat which often leads to Septic Prickly Heat and fimlly to boils
and ulcers. Patients are treated with early oil lavage of the akin and later
penicillin.
Venereal diseases with Syphilis manifesting itself in divers nmnners
• heavy toll of health and life. 80% of the poorer classes are Infected
and treatment with Arsenic and Mercury are very unpopular whereas Penicillin
supplies can never keep pace with the demand.
/ Bowel diseases
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This file consists of two annual administration reports for the year 1948, one for the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Muscat (folios 4-15) and the other for the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Bahrain incorporating the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. and Qatar (folios 16-42).
These two reports cover the following topics:
- Ruling Family
- Education
- Agriculture
- Medical
- Oil
- Trade
- Political Situation
- Customs
- Public Works
- Financial
- Communications
- Visitors
- Extent and format
- 1 file (41 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 43; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- Title
- Coll 30/9(2) 'Persian Gulf Annual Administration Reports'
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- front, front-i, 1Ar, 1Av, 2r:42v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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