ملف رقم ٣١٤٢ لسنة ١٩٠٣ "سكة حديد الحجاز" [و‎‎٦] (٤٨٨/١٨)

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Unic Majesty’s Governmaai
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eastern sanitary reforms.
[December 13.]
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CONFIDENTIAL. ^ Section 2.
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Mr. Marling to Sir Edward Grey *-(Received December 13.)
(No. 159. Commercial.) Constantinople, December 4, 1909.
Sir > , . ins Pnmmercial of the 17th ultimo, you were good
enough b.-S™ «*—
re8 '1 Thi to levy , »« U, lev the vnilntion o. «d.h .ud to »«,.
». Bo,,d * 0 M Wtott be .taolvri
tato^ll «,ntolbullon to^ri. te totio, on the -nit,., d.I.ne. ol
the Hedjaz Railway.
I entirely concur in principle with the e §ion of* the reduction of the
sSyZeHtg t. toKnTo^sr 1-
you .tote Ihto « it should b. made oleat that n~. ‘[SS^uotlon
S CJfiS 313»5 SSSfSl ft- the teuditlou. alttedy Md d„.
on this subject.” , • wi to me by Dr. Clemow, the probability
According to information now ^msbed to ^ tion in the san itary dues has
of success in the elforts of the Board o ar ^ 998 - 9 . The balance sheet,
been greatly lessened by the financial results of tW this year been a serious
which will be shortly issued, shows that 1^^ f ture; the sanit ary receipts
diminution in receipts and a considerable use ^ ^ averas?e for the preceding
amounting only to 8,1/0.b28 pias re , | 1( . l eX peiuliture was 7,098,481 piastres, as
five years of 8,830,711 piastres ; while the^expei of 6>268)392 pias t res . The
compared with an average to ‘ “ s %ervice has thus sunk from a five-year
margin of receipts over expenditure in this se ^ In t he “ quarantine
average of 2,562,319 piastres to one ot 1 ’ lc /’ satis fa C tory and growing surpluses,
service, which in /‘deficit oi 576,581 piastres, and consequent y
quarantine reserve fund is once more /' uff q last year greatly from the bad
q Although the “ sanitary f ^A’^ntt &c may probably increase, there seems
navigation conditions, the Austmn b^tt. «*•. J e P contrav y, it must have gone
no probability of the expenditure deereasi g ap p, ic ation of the new cadres
up enormously in the present year, 190J 1 ’ ^ t hope that the quarantine service
Xu various other ways. Nor ' s «iereany great ^ope ^ & y
ta —' “ “j;
venture to submit, therefore, that for the mo ^qo; if these should prove to be as
and await the publication of the likely that it will become necessary to drop
unfavourable as those for 1908-9 it seems hk y
S, teUStSS—i. »d H«ij» »»"*'> d “ re "" ”
• CHARLES M. MARLING.
, „f Trade, for observations,
U . Copies sent to India Office. ;Local Government Board, an
December 18, 1909.
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