"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎٣‎٩‎٢] (١٧٨٢/٥٣٥)

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In the Sulta-
nate of
'Oman.
In Bahrain.
British dis
pensaries at
Kuwait and
in Bahrain.
vigorous protests made by the British Legation at Tehran resulted,
however, in the Customs being prohibited from interfering with the work
of the British sanitary agents at the various ports.
The attitude of the Sultan of ^Oman in sanitary questions was at first,
on account of other difficulties between him and the British Government,
extremely unsatisfactory; but in autumn 1900, he at length handed over
the sanitary administration of the port of Masqat to the British Agency
Surgeon, at the same time placing under him qualified subordinates whom
he had brought from India on his own account.
The Shaikh of Bahrain continued to resist the introduction of proper
measures against plague in his dominions ; and in 1900 the abuses of a
sanitary system which he had set up were so much greater than its advan
tages that the Government of India found themselves obliged to insist upon
its abolition. In 1905, had an epidemic of plague which appeared in
Bahrain not suddenly ceased, the necessary steps would have been taken
there by the Government of India through an agent of their own.
In 1904 a dispensary was opened at Kuwait in connection with the
British Political Agency established there; and in 1905 the maintenance of
a Victoria Memorial Hospital in Bahrain, which had been founded by
private subscription in 1901, was undertaken by the Government of India.
British official matters, 1899-1905.
Her t Maje4j The neWS 0f the decease of Her Majesty the Queen-Empress Victoria
Queen on the 2 k 2nd January 1901 occasioned universal demonstrations of grief aad
CoronaHou 1 "^ at a11 stations in the Persian Gulf. At. Bushehr most of the
<*f His Biitish subjects, European and Indian, paid special visits of condolence at
kiDg Sty the Residency, and expressions of sorrow were transmitted to the Resident
Edward VII. by the Shaikh of Bahrain. At Masqat, where the Sultan put an end to the
I'd rejoicings and caused the shops to be closed and 101 minute guns to be
fired, the general feeling seemed akin to consternation. The Coronation
of His Majesty the King-Emperor Edward VII was celebrated at all places
inthe jurisdiction of the Persian Gulf Residency on the 1st January 1903.
l)iTision of In 1900 the financial relations between Her Majesty's Government and
and patronage ^ Government of India arising from political and consular representation
Home 611 the in ?ers ^ a were reac U us ted, and a rule was established that future increases
Government in expenditure should be divided equally between the two Governments.
Gotemmeut ^ 1904 S ' r Mortim<!r the Indian Civil Service relinquished
of India. change of His Britannic Majesty's Legation in Persia, which he had held