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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [273v] (549/862)
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
422
than the amoebic form of the disease, but in Iraq the Entamoeba
histolytica was the cause of 20 per cent, of acute dysenteries amongst
British troops in the forward areas whilst the ratio of incidence
amongst Indian troops was almost double. At Basra the ratio of
amoebic infections amongst British troops was 40 per cent.
Convalescents from the disease as well as healthy persons with no
history of dysentery may harbour encysted forms of Entamoeba
histolytica in the large intestine, and excrete them, constantly or inter
mittently. Senekji, Boswell, and Beattie (1939) examined 1,000
apparently healthy individuals. Of these 119 were pilgrims returning
from Mecca; the remainder were young men from 18 to 20 years of
age. Entamoeba histolytica was found in 49*3 per cent. Most of the
men came from central Iraq, but there is no reason to believe that
such healthy dysentery carriers are more numerous there than else
where. It is interesting that the percentage of carriers was higher in
Baghdad city than in the rest of Baghdad province, an indication that
the higher sanitary standards in the city are insufficient to counteract
the spread of infection caused by urban aggregation.
Two essential provisions for the control of dysentery, of both
forms, are careful supervision of the water-supply, and the protection
of all foodstuffs from the house-fly. A continuous high and moist
temperature favours the development of amoebic dysentery.
Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers
Fevers of the enteric group are widespread throughout Iraq and are
most prevalent from May to November. Cases registered in Iraq in
1939 numbered 826 (typhoid) and 430 (paratyphoid). More than half
were notified in the Baghdad and Mosul provinces, but it is doubtful
whether the figures indicate a greater incidence there than elsewhere,
and no province was free of the disease. Infection is probably com
mon in early childhood among the Iraqis, so that the adult population
enjoys a considerable degree of immunity. Cases and deaths in the
three principal towns in 1938 were:
Typhoid Paratyphoid
Cases
Deaths
Cases
Deaths
Baghdad
. 240
8
24
2
Basra .
Si
8
6
2
Mosul .
73
15
151
12
The high case-mortality rate in Mosul is probably an indication that
many mild cases went unrecorded.
The results of blood examinations at the Central Laboratory 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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