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'File 61/13 I (D 133) Wahabis and Pilgrimage to Hedjaz' [161r] (333/431)
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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suitable centre. Indian pilgrims who arrived by motor this year were detained
by the authorities at Khanikm for a few hours, for examination of their travel
documents and ceitiiicates of inoculation and vaccination.
(4) Health.
General.
con ditions, as far as pilgrims were concerned, were good during
the 1934 season, and climatic conditions were as favourable as the year before.
As will be noted below (paragraph 51), the general health of the inhabitants of
this country was by no means so satisfactory.
Saudi Medical Service.
es anil t 44. There was a considerable decrease in the total of medical personnel
nation compared with 1933. With an increased pilgrimage and dislocation due to
transfers to Asir for service with the Saudi forces, this can scarcely be regarded
as satisfactory, ihe following is the distribution during the season, based on
a list supplied by the Indian medical officer, except for transfers to Mecca for
temporary service at the climax of the pilgrimage ;—
Mecca. —Six, including the Director-General of Public Health, a dentist,
a midwife, and a surgeon who remains for most of the year in Riyadh.
Jedda. —Three, including one quarantine doctor and a lady doctor. The
third doctor was sent to Jizan before the pilgrimage season began, and
handed over his duties in connexion with the Jedda Hospital to his
quarantine colleague.
Medina. —One doctor.
Taif. —One, but he was transferred to Army Headquarters at Abha
before the pilgrimage season.
Yanhu and Wejh. —A quarantine doctor at the former. The latter
quarantine post has now been closed and the doctor removed.
Riyadh. —Three, including the Royal physician. They all were trans
ferred to Mecca for the height of the pilgrimage season.
45. This total of 15 (inclusive of the Royal physician and Riyadh staff, in
comparison with 19 exclusive of those officers in 1933) comprises 9 Syrians,
3 Egyptians, including the 2 women, 2 Hejazis and 1 Turk. All but one are
understood to have qualified in Beirut. The number of private practitioners
showed some increase; the Dutch doctor, however, left for Holland upon
completion of his contract. No change was reported in regard to pharmacists.
46. Hospitals, &c., maintained a starved existence. The following
particulars supplement those given in paragraph 46 of last year's report:—
Mecca. —Only the central hospital and that at Gabban were in use. The
condition of the former was much the same. The X-ray room has still to
be brought into use, and the analyst's room has not yet been built.
Dr. Mahmud Hamdi is active, however, in improving the hospital grounds.
The isolation sheds outside the city were again unused, Gabban being used
instead.
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Jedda. —Remained for most of the year, and still is, without a doctor in
charge. Nothing further has been done about a new hospital, but certain
minor improvements are being made in the old one. It is said that the
engagement of three Syrian doctors and two bacteriologists from Stambul
has been sanctioned.
^ j Taif. —Dispensary has been without doctor for six months.
Hasa. —Is still given over to the chauffeur-medico.
47. The Indian medical officer reports that the observations made in last
year's report at paragraph 47 in regard to the defective medical service in this
country, on the one hand, and the misleading accounts of it given in the Saudi
pilgrimage guide, apply in their entirety and with even greater force this year.
All pilgrims were charged for medicines, except those from whom charitable
gifts were expected. The Government is said to have allocated £600 gold for
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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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