'Arabia Intelligence Report' [‎17v] (34/52)

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The passage to tho iuncr ) ? n ^^' 1 /^ft''high b^nl'wSch invisible for 12 miles,
some Wmi^to ^e south -east of the port There are no lights, hoover,
and the port cannot be approached with safety at nigh .
There is one q na y ^nt lOO^ards ^
Mis^^'h^e^tarted the^redg^ng of the existing channel for small craft between the mner road-
Stea< AlwnO^'md^north of the ^^^^ a ^Qj^^f nl ]J|ANGABA^^ay V to C a n po^tion
^ jetty' are a^5-ton and 5-ton crane.
There are no other harbour facilities except those mentioned above, all transpo.t o
merchandise being done by manual labour.
The capacity of the port is estimated at from 300 to 500 d.w. tons per < ay.
(3) The Town
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The town of JEDDA is a haptazar^^
white-washed coral, separated by narrow ( . es are in a very state of repair. It
bordcre^he^a^or ^about ^iree-quarters -oTa -mile and extends inland on slightly rising ground
to a depth of about half-a-mile.
Population .
The resident cUsfian ye^hrn-i^av^c^dUio^J flowing population
i.e., during the first hall of the Christia v . )hnl1+ r 0 ii grouped in the nine foreign
itat^ 0 French, Persian ^rteh, Egyptian, luu.i and Soviet_
missions —British, Dutch Italia , rnmmercial concerns. It includes a number of
and in the few Bnt.sh L'utch and Itahan commercia^ Br itish-Indian of some
women. Ihe resident foieign Asia ic ■ ■ ., r p so closely mereed with the rest of the
400 souk and the British West African of some 500, are so closely mergea wiu
population as to be indistinguishable from it.
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There are no industries in Jedda The population lives on the pilgrims and the small
import trade
There are practically no exports.
The bulk of the town is residential.
T .i&hti'Hi? "
The present municipal system is by oil and petrol vapour lamps. All the leading houses
have their own private electiic lighting stts.
Water
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conveying distilled water to ships.
A pipe line conveying fresh water (well) from inland has been completed, but at present
the water so brought is v;ry impure on arrival at Jedda.
Sanitation
This consists of a number of private cesspits under the houses and streets and one or
two main drains which are said to reach the sea.
The streets are kept tolerably clean.
Hospitals
There is one well-built but badly administered Government Hospital. Foreign missions
maintain their own dispensaries. There is a Dutch resident doctor.