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1. '[Unnumbered file] Dubai Hospital Building Fund.'
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- Abstract: The file contains statements issued by The National Bank of India showing debits and credits to the Dubai Hospital Building Fund (held by the Political Agent, Bahrain) for the period September 1944 to June 1946 inclusive.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 22; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
2. 'P. 6. 733/1904. Muscat:- Hospital.'
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- Abstract: The item discusses the proposal put forward by Captain Norman Scott, Agency Surgeon at Muscat, and Robert Erskine Holland, Political Agent and Consul at Muscat, for a new hospital at Muscat; the existing one was considered inadequate and housed in unsuitable accommodation.The proposal is supported by the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf (Frederick Godfrey Bird) and the Admiralty who offer a donation towards its construction. Also included is correspondence relating to the decision of the Council of India to offer a substantial donation towards the hospital's construction and likely ongoing costs.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at f 2, and terminates at f 37, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
3. ‘Affairs of Aden’
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- Abstract: The item consists of letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] to the East India Company Court of Directors.The first letter, dated 30 September 1845 and found at f 145, concerns the new hospital at Aden. The letter appears to be an incomplete copy. Enclosures to this letter, which relate to its contents, can be found at IOR/F/4/2142/102303 and IOR/F/4/2142/102304.The second letter, dated 15 January 1846 and found at f 146, concerns a recent mission to the Somali Coast undertaken by Assistant Lieutenant [at Aden] Charles John Cruttenden. Enclosures to this letter, which relate to its contents, can be found at IOR/F/4/2142/102305.The third letter, dated 14 February 1846 and found at ff 148-149, concerns construction projects taking place in Aden. Enclosures to this letter, which relate to its contents, can be found at IOR/F/4/2142/102306 and IOR/F/4/2142/102307.The fourth letter, dated 2 March 1846 and found at ff 150-151, concerns the annual report on crime at Aden and an update on the wreck of the Company schooner, Memnon. Enclosures to this letter, which relate to its contents, can be found at IOR/F/4/2142/102308 and IOR/F/4/2142/102309.The item contains language which is considered offensive today.The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘P.C. [Previous Communication] 5264, Draft 494/46’, ‘Collection No. 8, Volume 1’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 144, and terminates at f 151, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the item also contains an original pagination sequence.
4. ‘Aden. Hospital.’
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- Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes, which form partial enclosures to a letter from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 30 September 1845. A copy of this letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2142/102302, alongside details of further enclosures.The item relates to proposals for the funding and staffing of the town hospital at Aden. The proposals are made by Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Captain in the Indian Navy and Political Agent at Aden, and John Porter Malcolmson, Civil Surgeon at Aden. The item also includes comments on the proposals from the Bombay Medical Board and the governments of Bombay and India.The item contains language which is considered offensive today.The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘P.C. [Previous Communication] 5264, Draft 494/46’, ‘Collection N. 8 of N. 105, Vol: 2’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 152, and terminates at f 159, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the item also contains an original pagination sequence.
5. 'File 2/2 Victoria Memorial Hospital Establishment - Ruling and Correspondence with Higher Authorities'
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- Abstract: The file contains two letters sent by the Chief Quarantine Medical Officer of the Victoria Memorial Hospital at Bahrain to some local authorities and to the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, regarding the closure of the Hospital to the general public from July 1948.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 5; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
6. 'File 2/4 II Medicines and Stores for the Victoria Memorial Hospital'
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Medical Store Depot at Bombay, Gray Mackenzie & Co Limited, and the Victoria Memorial Hospital, concerning the supply of medicines, vaccines, surgical equipment, and stores for the Hospital.The file also includes correspondence with various British suppliers, with leaflets and invoices, and correspondence with Indian National Railway regarding their shipping.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 286; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-124; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
7. 'File 2/4 Medicines and stores for Victoria Memorial Hospital'
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Medical Store Depot, the Chief Quarantine Medical Officer, the Office of the Controller of Military accounts at Poona, and the Victoria Memorial Hospital, concerning the furnishing of medicines, equipment and stores for the Victoria Memorial Hospital.The file includes correspondence with Bliss & Co, chemists in Karachi, regarding the supply of vaccines.The file also contains administrative arrangements for people in Bahrain to be inoculated with the TAB vaccine (combined vaccine used to produce immunity against the diseases typhoid, paratyphoid A, and paratyphoid B). The lists of people to be vaccinated include dependents (and their relatives) of the Political Agency, The Mesopotamia Persia Corporation Limited, The Eastern Bank Limited, the Government of Bahrain, and the Adviserate to the Government of Bahrain.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 240; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Two additional mixed foliation/pagination sequences are also present; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
8. 'File 2/9 European Wards in Bahrain'
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence between the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, the Political Agent at Bahrain, the American Mission Hospital, and Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO). The correspondence regards the transfer of the European Nursing Home to the American Mission; the opening in January 1935 of the American Mission Nursing Bungalow; the BAPCO hospital; and fees and care for European civilians in hospital in Bahrain.Copies of correspondence between the State Medical Officer and the State Engineer at Bahrain are also included in the file.The file contains some correspondence in Arabic and English, with the Ruler of Bahrain, Shaikh Salmān bin Ḥamad Āl Khalīfa.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 65; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-64; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
9. 'File 2/11 Victoria Memorial Hospital: funds and accounts'
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence regarding the Victoria Memorial Hospital at Bahrain: request for electrical supplies; acknowledgements of donations; credit notes; receipts for treatments; requests for medical exams, vaccinations, and eye tests.The principal correspondents are the Medical Officer at the Victoria Memorial Hospital (Dr Ralph Holmes), Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO), Eastern Bank Limited, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and the Political Agent at Bahrain.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 79; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-65; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
10. 'File 2/15 I Miscellaneous'
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- Abstract: The file contains miscellaneous correspondence about hospitals in Bahrain: vaccinations, conditions of hospitals and cost of medical treatments. There is also a contact report of venereal diseases for a Bahraini prostitute, from the Medical Department of the US Navy.The correspondents include the Port Directorate in Basra; the Office of the Accountant General, Central Revenues at New Delhi; the American Consulate in Dhahran; the Quarantine Medical Officer at the Victoria Memorial Hospital in Bahrain; the Medical Department of the Government of Bahrain; the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; and the Political Agent at Bahrain.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 59; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-10; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
11. 'File 2/21 Subscriptions to Agency Hospital Fund and proposals for expenditure'
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence and memoranda regarding expenditure on medicines and maintenance for the Victoria Memorial Hospital, and lists of individuals and companies funding the Hospital. The 1946 budget for the Hospital is also included.The principal correspondents are the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and the Political Agent at Bahrain.There are some documents with Arabic translation within the file, templates for letters to raise funds for the Hospital.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 38; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-22; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
12. ‘File 16/55 Haji Khudadad Charitable Fund.’
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- Abstract: Papers relating to the disposal at Bahrain and Sharjah of annual incomes derived from the Haji Khudadad charitable fund. The origin of the fund, named after the late Haji Khudadad bin Mohammed, who was Supply Agent at the British naval station at Bassidu [Bāsa‘īdū], is explained in a note written by staff at the Political Residency (folio 3). The funds were to be spent on Shia charities, but as no Shia charities existed in Bahrain, the annual allocation there of 350 Indian rupees was handed over to Dr Ralph Holmes of the Victoria Memorial Hospital in Manama, where it was to be used to assist poor Shias.The file includes:lists of individuals in Bahrain to whom money was paid (indicated in Indian rupees) from the Haji Khudadad fund;statements of expenditure incurred by the Political Agency in Bahrain from the Haji Khudadad fund;annual letters from Haji bin Ruqiayeh [also spelt Rokeya, Roqiyeh, Ruqieh, Rogya] requesting his inheritance from the estate of Haji Khudadad, followed by annual instructions from the British Residency to issue payment to Haji bin Ruqiayeh of 20 Indian rupees;correspondence concerning the expenditure in Dubai of money from the Haji Khudadad fund on beds for the Dubai hospital.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 72; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-47; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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