Coll 30/9 'Persian Gulf: Administration Reports 1926-1938' [‎320r] (644/1028)

Vest Office. — During the year 3,566 registered letters were received and 3,080
despatched as compared with 4,499 letters received and 4,097 despatched
last year. Four thousand and seventy-one parcels were received and 267
despatched and Its. 13,698-4-0 worth of stamps were sold.
Cash certificates worth Rs. 35,923-8-0 were sold and certificates worth
Rs. 18,720-5-0 were discharged. British Postal Orders to the value of Rs. 799-8-6
were sold and Rs. 11-15-0 paid. Savings Bank deposits amounted to Rs. 42,879
and Money Orders for Rs. 1,30,475-5-5 were issued and Rs. 8,233-7-4 paid.
On the 1st November the Post Office moved to its new quarters. The need
for extra accommodation in the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. having been keenly felt, proposals were
submitted during the early part of the year involving the alteration of two big
cell rooms to make a new Post Office. The proposal was sanctioned, and a new
Post Office was provided at a cost of Rs. 2,000 a work for which the pre-war esti
mate had been Rs. 7,000.
Medical .—Assistant Surgeon R. Holmes has remained in charge throughout
the year.
The total number of cases treated during the year, compared with the previous
year, were :—
Outdoor patients
1930.
.. 9,153
1931.
13,070
Indoor patients
..
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257
244
Major and minor operations
..
..
• .
435
1,038
Dr. Holmes was awarded the Kaiser-i-Hind medal in the Birthday Honours to
the great satisfaction of his many friends in Bahrain. His work has been invalu
able, and the very large increase in outdoor patients and operations in 1931 is the
best testimony to the efficiency with which he discharged his duties. The increase
has mainly been among the Bahama women, a class that have hitherto not believed
in hospitals, and who will not even visit the women’s hospital at the Mission.
34,243 outdoor patients and 317 indoor patients were treated at the men’s
hospital of the American Mission during the year and 419 major and minor opera
tions were performed. Dr. L. P. Dame remained in charge of this hospital through
out the year, except for a period of three months when he proceeded on leave to
the United States.
The women’s hospital had 7,954 outdoor patients and 169 indoor patients as
compared with 8,306 outdoor patients and 255 indoor patients treated during 1930.
61 major and minor operations were performed as against 125 for the preceding
year. Dr. Tiffany held charge throughout the year except for a three months’
recess in India.
Judicial, —The total number of civil suits instituted was 2,310 as compared
with 1,957 in 1930 and the number of criminal suits 360 as compared with 360. The
total number of petitions registered during the year was 2,705 and insolvency cases
12 .
The extra clerk applied for last year has been sanctioned, and it has been
possible to speed up the work of the vernacular office.
Visits of Government Officials .—The Hon’ble Rieutenant-Colonel H. V. Biscoe,
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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , accompanied by Captain R. G. Alban,
Under Secretary, and Mr. Lascelles of the Tehran legation arrived on the 3rd and
left on the 5th February,
Air Vice-Marshal E. Ludiow-Hewitt, Air Officer Commading, Iraq Command,
arrived on the 26th February and left for Muscat the following day.
Other visitors were the Shaikhs of Kuwait (two visits) and Dubai and Qatar.
Shaikh Muhammad al Hurm of Gaobandi also paid a visit to Bahrain on his way
to and from Hasa, and asked the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. if he could sell him any rifles.
The request, needless to say, was refused.
His Highness Prince Ahmad Tauhid, a grandson of His Imperial Majesty
the late Sultan Abdul Aziz of Turkey accompanied by Jemal Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , a Syrian
officer of the old Turkish army and now in the service of Bin Sand also paid
a visit. The latter stated that he Lai been on a mission to India to discover th«