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According to information supplied by Dr. Pigott, numbers and fees are
keeping up well in spite of Dr. Dodson’s absence on furlough,
Welfare, work,—Miss E. C. II. Stratton remained in charge of the Welfare j
('outre, assisted by Miss M. E. Robinson, throughout the year. The statistics i
for the last four years arc as follows :—
1931. 1932. 1933. 1934.
Number of confinements 76 92 89 09
Visits to Patients' homes 1,614 1,936 2,049 1,251
Patients attending centre 347 321 274 284
Repent visits 1,125 1,125 867 793

There is dose co-operation between the Women7s Hospital and the Welfare
Centre, which is under the control of the Lady doctor. All doubtful eases arc
now seen antcnatally by the doctor and advice is given.
Two combined antenatal and post-natal clinics are held weekly, one of
which is specially for carpet weavers, and children of all ages attend it. At
these meetings pregnant women arc seen, and advice is given to mothers.
There arc two. senior and three junior workers attached to the Welfare
Centre. The three juniors have recently commenced their midwifery training.
Two workers.passed the C. M. S. doctor’s examination (equivalent to 0. M. B.)
in September 1934 and another was to retake it in January 1935.
5. The Anfjlo-Persian Oil Company Limited.—The Company’s business
in Kerman continued to improve satisfactorily and the Russian stocks of
kcrosiuc and petrol were exhausted by the middle of the year.
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Early in October Dr. Harris and Mr. Falcon, the Company's geologists from
Abadan, arrived in Kerman, and left for- Bam, whence they intended to proceed
on survey to Persian Baluchistan and Mekran. After being kept waiting at
Bam for many days, however, they were obliged to return to Kerman and leave
for Isfahan, as the military authorities refused to furnish the necessary escort,
owing, apparently, to the disturbances in Persian .Baluchistan.-
Mirza Abdul Hussein Khan.Sadri (Seif-ul-Mamalik), the company’s re­
presentative in Kerman, was succeeded by Mirza Jalil KJiap. Suhai.of Shiraz in
the month of October.
6. Carpet Trade, etc.—The exports in Kerman carpets and tribal rugs,
expressed in thousands of Rials, during 1934 and the three preceding years, were
as follows :—(The rate of exchange at the end of the year was:Rials 84 to £1).
1931. 1932. 1933. 1934.
Kerman carpets and ruga 12,079 8,591 11,540 11,751
Tribal rugs 888 1,200 930 940
In spite of the above figures,-which only show the export side, the period
under report was the worst known for many years, so far as the carpet industry
in itself is concerned. Prices began to fail steadily as the year advanced and
the majority of weavers could not get new orders when they had completed their
contracts with the various firms.
By the end of the year the price of Kerman carpets had come down betweeu
'20 to 25 per cent, while the fall in the prices of tribal rugs was even more,
compared with those prevailing in the beginning of the year.
The proposal for the formation of a company, with a capital of 50 million
Rials for the monopoly of carpet trade, which was discussed at Tehran at the
omt of December, lias fallen through, owing, apparently, to its being considered
impracticable.

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