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'File 61/13 I (D 133) Wahabis and Pilgrimage to Hedjaz' [139v] (290/431)
The record is made up of 1 volume (213 folios). It was created in 21 May 1923-2 Mar 1937. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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64. The following table shows the percentage of the various diseases treated
in the Indian dispensaries during the year ending the 31st May, 1933 :—
Medical— Percentage.
(1) Malaria and its complications ... 40-20
(2) Other fevers and infectious diseases... 0-5
(3) Urinary diseases, including syphilis
and gonorrhoea ... ... ... 14-5
(4) Digestive troubles ... ... 10-4
(5) Circulatory diseases ... ... 1-6
(6) Respiratory diseases ... ... 15
(7) Nervous diseases ... ... ... 0-4
(8) Diseases of the locomotory system ... 0-3
(9) Women's diseases ... ... 4-0
(10) Children's diseases ... ... 4-8
(11) Eye, ear and throat diseases ... 6 8
(12) Deficiency diseases ... ... 0-06
Surgical—
(13) Sinuses, fistulae, ulcers, &c. ... ... 7-6
(14) Wounds and other contusions ... 6-37
(15) Hydrocele and hernia ... ... 0-5
(16) Cystitis, stone, &c. ... ... 0-47
100 00
65. The Government of India authorised last year a charge to cover
transport in cases where patients at Mecca are visited in their own quarters and
can afford to pay. The charge was fixed in the Indian Government's Guide for
Pilgrims at 5
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
per visit, except in the case of indigent persons. Of
seventy-eight outside visits made in 1933, nearly forty were unpaid, for reasons
of poverty or because of the departure of the pilgrims.
66. The doctors experienced no difficulty this year from restrictions on the
circulation of cars.
67. The difficulty, noted in paragraph 82 of last year's report, in connexion
with requests by doctors taking part in the pilgrimage that their prescriptions
should be made up at the Indian dispensary, did not recur in 1933. The
Government of India had upheld the view that such requests should be disallowed.
68. The Government of India have recently agreed to give gazetted rank
to their medical officer in Jedda, provided that the post is not held by officers less
qualified than assistant surgeons in India. It will bear the title of " Indian
Medical Officer attached to His Majesty's Legation at Jedda."
69. As regards publicity and sign-boards, see paragraph 163.
Other Foreign Medical Assistance.
70. 1 he Egyptian medical mission was again reduced. It worked in
Mecca, and its stay was greatly curtailed. The provision for Afghans was
similar to that in 1932 and was very elementary. The Indian doctor employed
spent only a short time at Mecca, when he worked in the hostel bought last year.
He received no new medical supplies.
71. i he arrangements of the Netherlands Government appear to have been
affected at least temporarily by the arrival in Jedda of a Dutch doctor named
Hartman. 1 his gentleman is not officially employed, but he is guaranteed a
minimum income by the Netherlands Legation, the Netherlands Trading Company
or Dutch Bank and International Agencies (Limited), the successors of the
old Van de Poll firm. If this experiment succeeds, the intention appears to be
to employ a Moslem doctor at Mecca each year for the pilgrimage season, but to
lely on Dr. Hartman in Jedda, where he has the use of the Legation dispensary.
72. A Syrian and a Persian doctor were attached to the French and Persian
pilgrims. They did not appear to have any very definite official status and
woiked privately among their own people, no dispensaries being opened.
t ^ The Russian couple mentioned in paragraph 88 of last year's report left
Jedda some time ago and have not been replaced. The Soviet Minister's wife
_ oes some general dispensing work. A Russian dentist, who arrived some
months ago, practices at the Legation.
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- Content
The volume consists of letters, telegrams, memoranda, and reports relating to the Hajj pilgrimage to the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina. The majority of the correspondence is between the British Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. (later British Legation) in Jeddah, the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, and Indian Office in London, the British Residencies in Bushire and Aden, the High Commissioners in Cairo and Baghdad, the Political Agencies in Bahrain and Kuwait, and Ibn Sa'ud.
Contained in the volume are the annual reports on the pilgrimage composed by the Agent in Jeddah for the years 1929-1935 inclusive. Each report consists of some or all of the following:
- a general introduction;
- information on quarantine;
- statistics;
- information on health, transport, customs, 'mutawwifs' (pilgrim guides), religious policy, tariffs and the cost of pilgrimage, and pilgrims from other Muslim regions of the British Empire (India, Afghan, Malay, West Africa, Sudan, Iraq, Palestine, Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan , Sarawak, Somalia, Zanzibar and East Africa, South Africa, Aden, Hadhramaut, Muscat, Bahrain, and Kuwait).
Other documents cover the following subjects:
- the Hajj under King Hussein and the implications of a Wahhabi conquest of the Holy Cities;
- an attack on Yemeni pilgrims by the Ikhwan in August 1923 and the subsequent fighting;
- an Egyptian Medical Mission to Jeddah, Mecca, and Medina to assist with the pilgrimage;
- Jeddah's water supply;
- a new motor road between Medina and Najaf;
- Japanese interest in the pilgrim trade;
- the formation and progress of a National First-Aid Society in the Hejaz and Nejd;
- the religious tolerance of the Wahhabis, specifically the kissing of the Black Stone in Mecca.
At the back of the volume (folios 205-206) are internal office notes.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (213 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged chronologically.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: The sequence starts on the first folio and continues through to the inside back cover, the numbers written in pencil, circled, and located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. The only irregularities are the first three folios (ff 1A-1C).
Fold-out folio: f 2.
There is an inconsistent and incomplete pagination sequence that is also written in pencil but is not circled.
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