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Coll 28/41 ‘Persia. Trade Reports. Kerman 1924–’ [123r] (245/313)
The record is made up of 1 file (154 folios). It was created in 14 Dec 1925-20 Apr 1943. 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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Bunder Abbas road which has been subjected to
eight raids from Bashakerdi robbers and two from
-Kudbar.
8. Social.
. ( a ) Standard of living .—The standard of living
is undoubtedly low in Kerman. The wages of a
daily unskilled labourer in the town or in the field
4 ^ r erage about 2£ krans a day. The wages of a
ohagird working in the carpet trade average from
2 krans to 3£ krans a day according to age and skill.
The wages of the carpet workers are piece-rate
wages and most of them could earn considerably
more if they worked regularly and continuously.
I he ordinary labourer, if he has a family, is unable
to buy more than a very small quantity of tea, sugar,
vegetables, or fruit, and lives almost entirely
on bread with meat once a week. The small tenant
farmer, with enough capital to lease, say, 400
qasabs of land, does a little better.
(6) U nemployment .—No statistics of unemploy
ment are of course available, but the opinion of
educated Persians seems to be that there is more
unemployment in Kerman than in most other big
towns in Persia. This is no doubt due to the effects
of opium and disease in lowering the general phy
sical and moral standard of the people, and I believe
that a considerable proportion of the unemployed
are unemployable.
There is no evidence of any emigration from the
province.
(c) Public health .—Apart from the evil effects
of opuim, the two chief enemies of public health
are venereal disease and epidemics. It is estimated
that about 75 per cent, of the adult urban popula
tion tfas suffered, or is suffering, from venereal
disease. The cholera epidemic that broke out
round Bunder Abbas in the autumn of 1927 did
Vnn U n n ^ el 7. reach Kerman > but it is reported
that 5,000 died m Mmab districts out of a total popu-
ation of about 25,000. It was mainly owing to
the reasonably prompt and effective steps taken
by the Persian Government that the epidemic was
controlled and prevented from reaching Kerman.
INormally, however, Government make no attempt
whatever to provide for the public health and hygiene
of the country districts. The activities of Govern
ment in this direction are confined to providing one
doctor, stationed at Kerman, for the whole province,
and even he is poorly qualified and is given no funds,
so that he can do practically nothing.
(d) Municipal semces.—Hitherto the Municipal
ity has had no funds to do more than put some
lights in the mam bazaar and provide a few sweepers
and watermen. The town is dirty and almost un-
hghted at night ; the streets are tortuous and narrow,
towards the close of the year the Municipal author
ities began to widen some of the streets by knock
ing down encroachments. So far the results have
been negligible except to the unfortunate house-
owners who receive no compensation. If the pro
mised sums are made available in the 1928- 9 9
budget some improvements may be effected. At
present there is practically not a single stretch of
good road in the whole town.
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Printed trade reports for the Kerman Consular District in Persia [Iran], submitted by a succession of British Consuls for Kerman (Henry Duncan Graves Law; John Hunter Davies; Edward William Charles Noel; Cecil Henning Lincoln; George Arthur Falconer).
The contents of the reports vary from one year to another, but usually feature summaries of: the district’s financial situation; foreign trade; taxation; military affairs (commandeering of equipment, conscription); agriculture; industry (including textiles and carpet manufacture); communications and transport; state undertakings and control of trade; public utilities; social conditions (standard of living, unemployment, public health); information for travellers. Most reports include appendices with statistical data on trade, including: imports and exports at the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. port of Bandar Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās]; imports and exports of key commodities into and out of Kerman; prices of foodstuffs; imports of Russian and Japanese goods.
Each report is preceded by 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. minute papers containing handwritten comments on the enclosed report. Many of the reports have pencil annotations.
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 file (154 folios)
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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 (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 156; 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-156; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- Coll 28/41 ‘Persia. Trade Reports. Kerman 1924–’
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- front, front-i, 2r:156v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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