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and can not coup with the requirement of the town. Stranuoue
effort a will bo needed whoa the committee meets to device work­
able means according to tho existing financial position of the
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municipality, for tho improvement of the sanitary conditions of the
town. By that time it is hoped Nr. Tufail of the Arab Hospital
Xhahran, who is the only qualified applicant for the poet of
Sanitary Inspector and who had been offered very generous terms,
will also arrive in Guadur to take charge of his duties.
11. A definite improvement has been made in the arrangment
of street-lighting.
(keen col fl2. Inspite of repeated offorts and most reasonable
terms offered for the post of Medical Officer for Guadur, the
post,duo to unauaual circumstances explained in para 6 aDove,
remained vacant during the year under report, from the correspon­
dence and private information received in this connection, it
appears that Dr. Bashir Ahmad, M.B.B.S., has accepted the terms
and will reach Guadur as coon as his passage is arranged.
Nothing i8 known as yet about the appointment of a
Compounder whose po6t has already been sanctioned by the Govern­
ment. If due to unsettled conditions prevailing in the two new
dominiions,a compounder can not be recruited from there, then
(subject to the approval of the Government) an educated person
might be trained locally by the doctor on the later's arrival.
13. Pending construction of a new building for Hospital,
a dispensary will be started in a rented building for which
arrangement has already, been made. It la believed medical equip­
ment and stores have been received in Muscat from Bombay. Arrange­
ment may kindly be made to send ,the stores etc to Guadur, so that
dispensary may be started immediately on doctor's arrival.
14. List of furniture required for the dispensary has already
been furnished Yide this office letter No. 32o dated the 19th.
December, 1947. Export permit for the furniture is still awaited.
Arrangements have been made with a local merchant who has started
a firm of exportea in Karachi, to purchase the furniture and
arrange ita safe dispatch to Guadur when the permit is received
by him. In the mean time he hab been asked to submit estimate of
the cost of furniture details of which have also been supplied to
him. The permit was originally asked for in the name of firm
Messrs. Lalchand-Kaliandass, but according to the latest infor­
mation received, as will be seen from the enclosed letter, the
flno named above is closing Its buseiness at Karachi and shifting
to Bombay. The permit, if possible, may pleaso be changed in the
name of'Suleman Hash am' whose full address is given in the enclocec
letter.