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CHAPTER VII.

               ADMINISTRATION REPORT OF THE POLITICAL AGENCY, MUSCAT,
                              FOR THE YEAR 1942.


                                    PART I


          1. AGENCY OFFICIALS.
               Political Agent         Captain J.3. Howes, M.B.B  • 3  from
                                       1st January 1942,.to 20th January
                                       1942.

                                       Major R.G.E.y. Alban, O.3.E., from
                                       21st January 1942, to 22nd May 1942.
                                       Mr. C.J. Pelly, I.C.S., frofa 22nd
                                       May 1942, to 31st December 1942.

               Assistant Political Agents-
                                       I.!r. C.J. Pelly, I.C.S  •)  from 8th
                                       April 1942, to 21st May 1942.

                                       Mr. G.N. Jackson, I.P., from 25th
                                       May 1942, to 31st December 1942.
               Treasury Officer        Mr. E.E. Thomas, from 1st January
                                       1942, to 31st December 1942.

               Medical Officer      :- Assistant-Surgeon C.E. Hynes, I.H.D  •)
                                       from 1st January 1942 to 31st
                                       December 1942.
          2. MEDICAL.

               (a) General.
                       The Public Health Department of the Muscat
               municipality functioned during the year under the direction

               of Sai>yid Abbas bin Faisal,    It's main and most important
               activities were anti-malarial which it continued with a
               fair measure of success. According to a survey made at
               Muscat some years ago the commonest malarial mosquito

               is however the Anopheles Maculapenis which is essentially
               a house-breeder and it 16 inside the houses and huts that,
                                                                 owing
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