IOR/L/PS/12/3834

The file contains information on the nature of personal living conditions in the Persian Gulf, including correspondence from persons who had been offered employment in Bahrein [Bahrain], and who sought information on conditions there.

The papers include: report on economic conditions in the Persian Gulf, issued by the British Consulate-General, Bushire, December 1936 (folios 82-105); appendix to Persian Gulf Naval Intelligence Report, October 1934, on a visit to the Bahrain petroleum fields (folios 80-81); correspondence from six individuals in the United Kingdom, who had been offered civil employment in Bahrain, mainly in the oil industry, and who sought information on conditions in the country, particularly the climate, together with replies from the India Office; 'Note on the Bahrain Islands' (folios 66-70); report issued by the British Consulate-General, Bushire on the 'personal' aspects of life at Bushire (folios 30-47); and Final Report on the Malaria Survey of Bahrein Islands, by Major M K Afridi, IMS (Malaria Institute of India), 1938 (folios 9-21, and Preliminary Report, folios 23-37).

The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.