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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. I. 1918' [67] (76/568)
The record is made up of 1 volume (282 folios). It was created in 1918. It was written in English, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Armenian, Kurdish and Syriac. The original is part of the 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. .
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35
HYGIENE 67
Medical. -—-Officers are advised to take the following :
A clinical thermometer.
Phenacetin.
Aspirin.
Quinine.
Chlorodyne.
Cascara.
Citronella (for mosquitoes and sandflies).
Keating's Powder.
A small quantity of alum and bicarbonate of soda.'
Among the natives of Irak malaria is the chief endemic disease,
« and is especially common in the southern part of that country. It
l is prevalent also in certain parts of upper Mesopotamia.
* Other diseases, more or less common among the native population
Z 0 ! Mesopotamia, are small-pox, diphtheria, dysentery, various diseases
p of the eye, typhoid fever, ankylostomiasis, tuberculosis (which is on
V * he increase), syphilis and other venereal diseases (especially in the
Jta towns ; syphilis is said also to have spread much lately among the
fc Kurds). -Bilhamasis occurs in the marshes, and is due to drinking
K stagnant marsh-water. There is some leprosy, which is most common
in the neighbourhood of Amara in Irak. The hill-tribes suffer very
i much from various forms of rheumatism, which is also common in
fail Baghdad and other towns in the plains. Epidemics of cholera and
if bubonic plague occur from time to time.
Under Turkish rule the towns have been left in a most insanitary
Mi,I condition. J
r ^ e j ? us< rf genially built with a courtyard in the middle
enclosed by the living quarters. Under the courtyard is a large cess
pool taking all the refuse of the house and cleaned out once in every
tew years. At Basra the inhabitants have been accustomed to drink
isni [he water of the Ashar creek, which serves them also as wash-tub
lull®: a u, dustbin, and cesspool. At Baghdad drinking-water is supplied
mainly by water-carriers, who draw water from the river, usuallv at
^ pools in the openings in the bank, and bring it thence in skins
, r figl earned either on their own backs or by donkeys. Before the war
only aboiit SGQ houses were supplied with Tigris water, raised by
jsert;i » ^U-b.p oil-engme and distributed through pipes. Water is filtered
m the houses through large porous jars called zeers, and these
wM .® nouse-wells, being left uncovered, are breeding-grounds for
ffe lisf mosquitoes (chiefly Culex and Stegomyia).
tit 3 Almost the only sanitary measures taken by the Turkish authorities
have been those of quarantine. In particular, a number of quarantine
e 2
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This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume I, General (Naval Staff, Intelligence Department: November 1918). This is an updated and expanded edition of A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume I, General (Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Department: August 1916) (IOR/L/MIL17/15/41/1). This is an introductory volume containing matter of a general nature giving an account of conditions in Mesopotamia, for the most part as they were before the First World War.
The volume includes a note on official use, a title page and 'Note'. There is a page of 'Contents' that includes the following chapters and sections:
- Chapter 1: Boundaries and Physical Features;
- Chapter 2: Climate;
- Chapter 3: Minerals;
- Chapter 4: Fauna and Flora;
- Chapter 5: Hygiene;
- Chapter 6: History;
- Chapter 7: Inhabitants;
- Chapter 8: Religions;
- Chapter 9: Administration;
- Chapter 10: Irrigation of Irak [Iraq];
- Chapter 11: Agriculture and Land Tenure;
- Chapter 12: Commerce and Industry;
- Chapter 13: Currency, Weights, and Measures;
- Chapter 14: Communications and Transport;
- Vocabularies;
- Index.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (282 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged in numbered chapters. There is a contents page and an alphabetically arranged index.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the first folio and terminates at the last folio; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of the folio.
Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. I. 1918'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:556, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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