Author
an agent.
doctor and the cost of drugs
Publication Date
19 Oct 1930-20 Aug 1941 (CE, Gregorian)
Type
Document
Language
ara,eng
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
271
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IOR/R/15/2/1258
Record ID
vdc_100000000241.0x0003e1
Library Location
British Library:
India Office
The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors.
Records and
Private Papers
Documents collected in a private capacity.
Date
19 Oct 1930-20 Aug 1941 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
The file contains correspondence relating mostly to the purchase and shipment of supplies and equipment and the employment of staff for the Bahrain Government Hospital. The correspondence is mostly between the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave),
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
, Bahrain,
Political Resident
A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency.
in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, State Medical Officer (Dr Ian Davenport Jones, later Dr Richard Henry Barter Snow), and the Indian Store Department of the Government of India. Additional correspondence is from the following:
the High Commissioner for Iraq;
the British Consulate-General in Beirut;
the Government of India Medical Store Depot in Bombay;
the
India Office
The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors.
;
the Accountant General, Central Revenues Department, Government of India;
Gray, Mackenzie and Company;
Theodore Hamblin Limited;
Yousuf Mahmood Husain;
Bombay Surgical Company.
The majority of the papers are connected to the sourcing, purchase, and shipment of medical supplies and equipment from India and the United Kingdom. These include invoices, covering letters for payments, lists of items needed, and requests for payments.
In addition, the papers cover the following matters:
the proposal to appoint a female doctor to the Manama Municipality, later abandoned;
complaints about the high fees of the
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
doctor and the cost of drugs;
the employment of male dressers and female nurses in the male and female wards, respectively;
free medical services for European officials of the government;
recommendations by the State Medical Officer regarding the Lunatic Asylum (folio 230).
Included in the file is a memorandum on women's hospitals in India (folios 23-34), including a plan of Zenana Hospital (folio 29), plans for a 40-bed and 20-bed hospital (folios 30 and 31), a plan for a dispensary and emergency ward (folio 32), and a plan and designs for a house for the doctor (folio 33).
Folios 254-272 are internal office notes.
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Düzenleme
The file is arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
Eski Harici Referans(lar)
File 6/43
Gruplandırıldığı Yer
Plan of Zenana Hospital: for 80 beds
2 images
Ref: IOR/R/15/2/1258, f 29
Plan of Hospital of 40 beds
2 images
Ref: IOR/R/15/2/1258, f 30
Plan of Hospital of 20 beds
2 images
Ref: IOR/R/15/2/1258, f 31
Plan of Dispensary and Emergency Ward (4 beds)
2 images
Ref: IOR/R/15/2/1258, f 32
Plan and drawings of House for the Doctor
2 images
Ref: IOR/R/15/2/1258, f 33
