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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [270v] (543/862)
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
disease so diagnosed. The gradual increase in prevalence from
February to July is associated with an increasing temperature and
increasing anophelism. The subsequent lessened incidence is associa
ted with a reduction in river-level, desiccation of breeding-places,
and other adverse conditions. The increase in October and November
follows a reduction in the great heat and an occasional small rise in
river-level and is associated with a second general increase of anophel
ism. The decline of fevers from November to February is related to
winter conditions, but there was active transmission of infection
among British troops in the Mosul area in December 1918, the
average mean temperature of that month at Mosul was 56 F.
All three forms of the malaria parasite occur in Iraq, but Plas
modium vivax, the benign tertian parasite, is much the most common.
Malignant tertian malaria, P. falciparum, is somewhat surprisingly
rare. The classification of cases treated in 1939 was:
Benign tertian, P. vivax .
91-3 per cent.
Subtertian, P. falciparum.
1-2 „
Quartan, P. malariae
i -4 »
Malarial cachexia .
o-6 ,,
Undefined
5 - 5
100 per cent.
Experience in the War of 1914-1918 confirmed the preponderance
of P. vivax infections but suggested that P. falciparum was much more
in evidence than is shown by the 1939 figures. The percentages of
P. falciparum infections among British and Indian troops were: at
the base 11-4 and 23-4, and up country 28-5 and 38-9. The number
of quartan infections among the troops was insignificant.
Blackwater Fever. In 1939, 28 cases of blackwater fever were
reported from Basra and 2 from Baghdad.
Eye Diseases
About one-third of all cases of infectious disease treated in Iraq are
cases of trachoma, which in 1939 numbered 352,662. In 1926 the chief
of the Ophthalmic Department in Baghdad estimated that two-thirds
of the Iraqi population had been afflicted by trachoma and that very
few of those who contract the disease escape without some impair
ment of eyesight. This chronic and devastating disease therefore is of
very great public importance. Facilities for treatment have been in
creased, and each year greater numbers of patients present them
selves for treatment, but more trachoma clinics are required.
Other inflammatory eye diseases are also prevalent. Cases of con
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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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