IOR/V/10/571/6

Annual administration report of the Aden Residency, providing a summary record of the main events and developments in the administration of the Settlement of Aden and the Island of Perim during the financial year 1927-28. The report was printed by the Manager, Government of India Press, Delhi, in 1929.

The report is divided into the following sections, some of which are further divided into sub-headings:

• Letter from the Resident and Commander-in-Chief, Aden, to the Chief Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay, dated 24-25 September 1928, submitting the report (f 228), and including: Change in Office
• ‘CHAPTER II. GENERAL AND POLITICAL.’ (f 228), consisting of: General; Administrative Machinery
• ‘CHAPTER III.’ [ADMINISTRATION OF LAND] (f 228)
• ‘CHAPTER IV. PROTECTION.’ (ff 229-231), consisting of: Legislation; Land Police; Cases taken up by the Police and their results; Conduct of the Police; Harbour Police; Deportation of Vagrants; Criminal Justice; Cases tried by the Magistrates and their results; Cases tried by Sessions Court; Appeals; Revisional Proceedings; Lunatics [people experiencing mental health problems]; Extradition; Inquests; Marine Cases; Civil Justice; Suits dealt with; Execution of decrees; Appeals; Revisions; Administration of Estates; Certificates of heirship, etc.; Receipts and expenditure; Workmen’s compensation; Rent Controller; Prisons; Registration; Bills of Exchange; Municipal Administration; Marine; Aden Port Trust
• ‘CHAPTER V. PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION.’ (ff 231-232), consisting of: Weather and Crops; Wages and Labour; Prices and principal grains; Forest and Horticulture; Trade and Manufacture; Perim Pearl Fishery; Public Works; Post Office
• ‘CHAPTER VI. REVENUE AND FINANCE.’ (ff 232-233), consisting of: Receipts and Payments; Local Funds; Currency Notes; Sovereigns; Supply Bills; Cash Remittances; The Temporary Currency Chest; Small Silver; Nickel coins; Income-tax; Stamps; Abkari [department dealing with fees and duties on alcohol and cannabis]; Opium; Salt; Customs; Non-Dangerous Petroleum; Dangerous Petroleum; Drugs; Explosives; Transhipment; Carbide of calcium; Arms
• ‘CHAPTER VII. MEDICAL.’ (ff 233-235), consisting of: Births and Deaths; Hospitals and Dispensaries; European General Hospital; Infectious disease block (European Ward) at Hedjuff; Bai Jerbai Charitable Dispensary; Civil Hospital, Crater; King Edward VII Charitable Dispensary; Grant-in-Aid Dispensary, Maala; Infectious Diseases Hospital, Maala; Settlement Dispensary, Sheikh Othman [Ash Shaikh Outhman]; Leper Asylum [hospital for people affected by leprosy or Hansen’s Disease]; Infectious Diseases Hospital, Shaikh Othman; The Keith Falconer Mission Hospital of the United Free Church of Scotland, Shaikh Othman; Health Department; Vaccinations; Small Pox; Plague; Inoculations; Rats; Port Health Department
• ‘CHAPTER VIII. EDUCATION.’ (ff 235-236), consisting of: Schools for Boys; Schools for Girls; Special Institutions
• ‘CHAPTER IX. MISCELLANEOUS.’ (f 236), consisting of: Press and Newspaper; Library; Public Conveyance; Public Roads; Lighting; Aden Railway
• ‘GENERAL REMARKS.’ (f 236).

The remainder of the item (ff 237-271) consists of appendices to the report.