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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