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Coll 28/39 ‘Persia: Printed Correspondence 1929-1936’ [‎144v] (299/1174)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (583 folios). It was created in 10 Mar 1930-1 Feb 1937. It was written in English, French and Persian. 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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prison administration or appointed from outside, will be in accordance with
the submissions of the General Director of Prisons as approved "by the General
Director of Police.
Article 147 .—Teachers in the reformatory, besides teaching, will have to
develop the children morally by means of useful advice and admonition.
Article 148. —All children will be employed for a part of the day in the
workshops in the reformatory in learning a handicraft, and in addition they
must undergo an hour’s physical exercise for their bodily health (half an
hour in the morning and half an hour in the afternoon).
Hospital of the Prison for Condemned Prisoners.
Article 149 .—The prison hospital will be under the supervision of the
prisons administration as regards administrative matters and under the
supervision of the Director of the Health Department of the Police Adminis
tration as regards medical matters.
Article 150. —The prison hospital will be divided into two sections, for men
and for women, and will have not less than one doctor.
Article 151 .—“ Infirmiers ” and nurses, both male and female, will take
turns of duty in the departments of the hospital as may be necessary.
Article 152 .—The prison doctor will submit to the General Director of
Prisons a daily report on the treatments he is giving.
Article 153. —It is the duty of the prison doctor to look at all sick cases
in the prison every day, entirely impartially and with all due care, and to
discharge his duties in a good-tempered and disinterested manner.
Article 154. —In cases where imprisonment would be dang’erous or
detrimental to prisoners, it is the duty of the prison doctor to certify the case
in writing without loss of time and inform the General Director of Prisons.
Article 155. —The prison doctor should at all times decide upon the
prisoners’ food and give any instructions for its preparation and cooking.
Article 156 .—It is the duty of the prison doctor to inspect the prisoners*
food daily in the prison kitchen and to give such instructions as may be neces
sary from the point of view of health.
Article 157.—The prison doctor must every day take steps to disinfect all
parts of the prison.
Article 158. —Immediately on receiving news of the presence of an in
fectious disease in the prison, the prison doctor must isolate the sick person
from the others and by this means cheek the infection.
Article 159.—-The prison doctor will have a dispenser to look after the
administrative side and to take care of the dispensary.
Article 155.—Besides dosing and treating the prisoners, the prison doctor
wul he required to treat all the employees of the prison administration.
Kitchen.
Article 161.—In the kitchen, which will have one cook and as many
appr< mice cooks as may be necessary, the prisoners’ ordinary food and anv
special foods for sick persons will be prepared.
Article 155.—Responsibility for the prison kitchen will lie with the
management section of the Police and will be under the supervision of a
prison official.
A)tide 163.—\\hoever is responsible for the kitchen must pay great atten
tion to good health m every respect. After every meal he must have all
ciisnes, etc., wasned in a basin of boiling water.
Prison Bath.
• Tiie prison will have a bath completelv equipped from the
point of view of sanitation.
Article Each prisoner must be sent to the bath at least on one day
every week and oftener if the doctor so instructs or the General Director of
Prisons so permits.
166. Bath necessities such as cloths and soap will be supplied by
the Management Administration of the Police,

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Printed correspondence from the Government of India’s Foreign and Political Department (later referred to as the External Affairs Department) relating to Persia [Iran]. The original correspondence was exchanged between British representatives in Persia (chiefly the British Legation in Tehran), the Foreign Office, and the 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. . The correspondence concerns: the announcement by the Persian Government of laws, decrees, regulations, budgets, and other governmental communiqués, the texts of which were usually published in Persian newspapers (including Le Journal de Tehran , Shafaq-e-Surkh , Le Messenger de Teheran and Iran ); reports on provincial affairs in Persia, chiefly in the form of reports submitted by British Consuls; Persia’s foreign relations, particularly those with Soviet Russia [Soviet Union, USSR]; correspondence dated 1929 and 1930 reporting on events in northern Persia (Azerbaijan and Khorasan) where large numbers of Russian refugees settled in the wake of the October Revolution; copies of diplomatic exchanges between the British Legation in Tehran and the Persian Government, the latter represented by figures including the Persian Prime Minister Mirza Mohamed Ali Khan Feroughi, the Minister of the Court of Iran Abdolhossein Teymourtash, and Hassan Ali Ghaffari of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the activities of the Shah, with a particular focus on his modernisation policies that were implemented across Persia during the 1930s.

A large number of items in the file are in French. These include the texts of Persian Government laws, Persian newspaper articles, and correspondence from Persian politicians. The file also includes a memorandum on the Persian renderings of ‘imperial’ that contains Persian text (ff 305-306).

The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

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1 volume (583 folios)
Arrangement

The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 579; 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. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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English, French and Persian in Latin and Arabic script
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