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‘Administration Report of Aden for the year ending 31 March 1934’ [4r] (12/106)
The record is made up of 1 volume (54 folios). It was created in 1935. 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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and the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 regained for Aden its old importance.
As a result of the increased prosperity of Aden since British occupation the
population has risen from 500 to 46,000. The modern commercial prosperity
of Aden is based on the fact that it is a fuelling Station, originally for Coal,
and now for Coal and Oil. It is nearer than any other large port on the main
eastern trade route to the Anglo-Persian Oil Company’s production centre
in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
. The fact that ships call at Aden for fuelling has caused
general increase in trade and it is the distributing centre for trade to and
from Arabia, Abyssinia, Somaliland and Africa. During the past five years
Aden has suffered like the rest of the world from severe trade depression hut
is sharing in the general revival taking place at the present time.
II.—Aeea and Population.
The total area of the Settlement of Aden is 75 square miles, and its popula
tion at the time of the census taken in 1931 was as follows :—
Crater ........... 21,383
Maala including Barrier Gate ....... 3,6l>5
Tawahi and Steamer Point including Hedjuff .... 7,502
Sheikh Othman, Irnad Hiswa and Little Aden .... 12,167
Military area (Steamer Point including Khormaksar) . . . 1,981
Total t 46,638
The racial composition of this population is as under :—
European, .......... 1,145
Arabs . . .... . * . . . 29,820
Indians ..... ..... 7,287
Jews . . 4,120
Somalis ........ . 3,935
Miscellaneous .......... 331
Total , 46,638
The Island of Perim at the south end of the Red Sea, with an area of 5
square miles and a population of 1,700, is administratively attached to Aden.
III.— Climate.
There is a third class Meteorological Observatory in Aden under the
superintendence of the Medical Officer in charge of the European General
Hospital. The maximum temperature recorded was 101*9 in July 1933,
and the minimum was 66*2 in February 1934. The rainfall totalled 1 inch
57 cents. Hot sandy winds prevailed as usual during the south-west monsoon.
There are no crops in Aden, which depends on supplies from other countries,
principally India and the interior.
The climate of Aden from October to April, i.e., during the North-West
monsoon is cool and pleasant especially from November to February. During
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Annual administration report of the Aden Settlement, providing a summary record of the main events and developments in each department of the Administration of Aden during the financial year 1933-34. The report was printed at the Government of India Press, New Delhi, in 1935.
The report is divided into the following sections, some of which are further divided into sub-headings:
- ‘I. – General’ (ff 3-4), consisting of: Description; The Island of Perim; Historical Note
- ‘II. – Area and Population’ (f 4)
- ‘III. – Climate’ (f 4)
- ‘IV. – Administration’ (ff 4-5)
- ‘V. – Finance’ (f 5)
- ‘VI. – Judicial’ (f 5)
- ‘VII. – Police’ (f 5)
- ‘VIII. – Prisons’ (f 5)
- ‘IX. – Medical’ (ff 5-7), consisting of: European General Hospital; Civil Hospital; Infectious Diseases Hospital; The Keith Falconer Mission Hospital of the United Free Church of Scotland; Finance; Staff; Scope of Work; Settlement Work; Leper Asylum [hospital for persons affected by leprosy or Hansen’s Disease]; Dispensaries; Vaccination
- ‘X. – Public Health’ (ff 7-8), consisting of: Births; Deaths; Infectious Diseases; Water Supply and Drainage
- ‘XI. – Education’ (ff 8-9)
- ‘XII. – Public Works’ (f 9)
- ‘XIII. – Municipal’ (f 9)
- ‘XIV. – Port Administration’ (f 9)
- ‘XV. – Trade’ (ff 9-10)
- ‘XVI. – Shipping’ (f 10)
- ‘XVII. – Industries’ (f 10), consisting of: Fish Meal Industry; Soap Manufacturing Industry ‘XVIII. – Customs’ (f 10)
- ‘XIX. – Transport’ (f 10)
- ‘XX. – Post Office’ (f 10)
- ‘XXI. – Registration’ (f 11)
- 'XXII. – Telephones’ (f 11)
- ‘XXIII. – Miscellaneous’ (f 11), consisting of: Hotels; Regatta; Press Reuters.
A table of contents listing the sections of the report is on folio 2. The remainder of the volume (ff 13-54) consists of appendices to the report, which are listed on folio 12. Folio 55 consists of a map of Aden (IOR/V/10/573, f 55).
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- 1 volume (54 folios)
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The report contains a table of contents listing headings.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 56; 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.
Pagination: the volume also contains a pagination sequence in parallel between ff 3-54.
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- ‘Administration Report of Aden for the year ending 31 March 1934’
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