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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [268r] (538/862)
The record is made up of 1 volume (430 folios). It was created in 1944. It was written in English. 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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PUBLIC HEALTH AND DISEASE
Year
1934
1 93 5
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
Baghdad
Mosul
Basra
252
229
328
251
189
356
275
198
258
249
212
224
257
166
250
234
188
231
252
190
295
These high rates, four or five times higher than those of advanced
western countries, are comparable with those of most Asiatic towns of
similar size, and indicate very low standards of public health. The
rates in the villages and smaller towns are almost certainly higher.
The causes of the death of infants under 1 year of age in 1939 in the
same towns are tabulated below as percentages of the total deaths at
this age:
Cause of death
Baghdad
Mosul
Basra
Average
Marasmus .
29
65
15
36-3
Diarrhoea, &c.
20
9
19
160
Fever and Malaria
13
2
33
160
Premature birth .
14
6
16
12.0
Infectious diseases
5
3
6
4'7
Respiratory diseases
0
5
5
3'3
Other diseases
19
10
6
117
100
100
100
1000
General Mortality. The causes of death are available only for the
three large towns. Respiratory diseases head the list in Baghdad;
fever and malaria in Basra; intestinal diseases in Mosul. In the three
towns combined, over a period of nine years, 102,743 deaths were
recorded. The causes of those deaths, expressed as percentages of this
total were:
Intestinal diseases (inch marasmus)
20 2 per cent.
Respiratory diseases
192
y>
Premature birth and debility
9'5
yy
Fever and malaria
7-2
yy
Old age .....
69
yy
Tuberculosis ....
62
yy
Infectious diseases
59
yy
Heart diseases ....
5'9
yy
Accidents and violence
3 i
yy
Kidney diseases ....
22
yy
Nervous diseases.
IT
yy
All other causes ....
126
yy
100 0 per cent.
Morbidity. The number of patients treated at all institutions in
Iraq in 1939 was 3,496,945 as compared with 4,093,735 in 1938. Of
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The volume is titled Iraq and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (London: Naval Intelligence Division, 1944).
The report contains preliminary remarks by the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1942 (John Henry Godfrey) and the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1944 (E G N Rushbrook).
There then follows thirteen chapters:
- I. Introduction.
- II. Geology and description of the land.
- III. Coasts of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
- IV. Climate, vegetation and fauna.
- V. History.
- VI. People.
- VII. Distribution of the people.
- VIII. Administration and public life.
- IX. Public health and disease.
- X. Irrigation, agriculture, and minor industry.
- XI. Currency, finance, commerce and oil.
- XII. Ports and inland towns.
- XIII. Communications.
- Appendices: stratigraphy; meteorological tables; ten historical sites, chronological table; weights and measures; authorship, authorities and maps.
There follows a section listing 105 text figures and maps and a section listing over 200 illustrations.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (430 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is divided into a number of chapters, sub-sections whose arrangement is detailed in the contents section (folios 7-13) which includes a section on text-figures and maps, and list of illustrations. The volume consists of front matter pages (xviii), and then a further 682 pages in the original pagination system.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 430; 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'. side of each folio.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:253r, 254r, 255r:429v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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