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ADUINISTRATION REPORT OF THE POLITICAL AGENCY, MUSCAT,
FOR THE YEAR 1943,

PART I

(, AGENCY OFFICIALS*
Political Agent i- C.J. Pelly, Esq., I.C.S., up to 20th
September.
Captain R*E.R. Bird, officiating from
21st September to 31st October.
Captain R.D. Metcalfe, from 1st November
till the end of the year.
Assistant Political Agent t-
Mr. G.N. Jackson, from 1st January to
7th April.

Captain R.E.R. Bird, from 8th April to
20th September, and again from 1st
November to 31st December, the post being
vacant from 21st September to 31st
October.
Treasury Officer !£r. E.E. Thomas, from 1st January bo
10th April.

Mr. Ras Masaud, from 11th April to 31st
December.
Medical Officer :- Assistant Surgeon C.E. Hynes, I.M.D • i
throughout the year.
1. SSDICAL.

(a) General.
Saiyid Abbas bin Faisal was Director of the Public Health
Department throughout the year. Anti-malarial measures were his
chief activity but he himself contracted this fever and had to
convalesce in India. Statistics also show an increase of 135
cases, from 1144 in 1942 to 1279 in 1943.
During the Summer a small pox epidemic broke out in
Muscat, Salalah and Maslrah. 222 cases were rembved to segrega­
tion camps and over 4000 people were vaccinated*
(b) Agency Hospital*

The Hospital was open throughout the year. Figures of
attendance are t-
Outdoor - ( New cases 4,734
( Old case8 6,686
Indoor - Admissions 108
Major operations • 11
Minor operations 28,

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