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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [275v] (553/862)
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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426 PUBLIC HEALTH AND DISEASE
children on the covered parts of the body with material obtained from
a Baghdad boil, to prevent the development of unsightly scars on
face and hands. The procedure is still practised to some extent. A
recent report describes the successful inoculation of some 200 persons
with a live culture of L. tropica, a process that is vastly preferable to
inoculation with material from a Baghdad boil with its attendant risk
of quite other infections. Such immunization with a live culture of
L. tropica is worth consideration in places in which cutaneous leish
maniasis is very prevalent.
Natural infection in both visceral and dermal leishmaniasis is trans
mitted by certain species of sandfly.
Sandfly Fever
Sandfly fever is a specific fever of a few days’ duration, causing no
mortality, but incapacitating while it lasts. It is caused by an ultra-
microscopic organism which is transmitted by a species of sandfly or
phlebotomies: in Iraq by P. papatasii. Only 165 cases of sandfly fever
were recorded in Iraq in 1939, but probably only a very small per
centage of cases are presented for treatment. In endemic areas a high
proportion of Iraqis appear to be immune, apparently as the result of
previous infection. The arrival of non-immunes in numbers, such as
an expeditionary force, may provide dramatic evidence of the presence
of infection. No fewer than 29,089 cases of sandfly fever were
admitted to Base hospitals from the Mesopotamian Expeditionary
Force from July 1917 to December 1918. The average duration of
treatment of these patients was 117 days.
The sandfly is exceedingly minute: it can pass through the mesh of
an ordinary mosquito net with 16 to 18 holes to the inch. A finer net,
with 22 holes to the inch, which can exclude sandflies, is oppressive in
a hot climate, but should be used if possible for the treatment of cases
in hospital, during the first 48 hours of fever when the patient is
infective for sandflies. The upper stories of a building are less likely
to harbour sandflies than the ground floor. Overhead electric fans
afford protection from sandflies.
Syphilis
Syphilis is widespread in Iraq. The number of cases treated in 1939
was 34,392. It is a disease caused by a parasite Treponema pallidum,
infection with which in Europe is almost invariably transmitted by
sexual intercourse. Among the nomadic and semi-nomadic tribesmen
of Iraq, Syria, and some adjacent territories there is a form of syphilis,
called bejel, caused by a parasite apparently identical with T. pallidum,
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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.
- Physical characteristics
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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