"تقرير الإدارة عن المقيمية السياسية في الخليج الفارسي للأعوام ١٩١٥-١٩١٩" [ظ‎‎١‎٠] (٣٩٦/٢٧)

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PERSIAN GTTLl? ADMINISTRATION REPORT
appendix.
MEMORANDUM BY MAJOR J, McPHERSON, I.M.S., RESIDENCY
SURGEON AND CHTEE QUARANTINE MEDICAL OPEICER
IN THE PERSIAN GULF, ON THE WORK OF (1) THE RESI
DENCY DISPENSARY, (2) QUARANTINE ADMINISTRATION
IN THE GULF.
During tliG yoar the number of patients treated at tbe Hospital was
] 4,677. Of these 14,537 were out-
Hospitai. patients and 140 in-door cases.
The operations performed numbered 645.
The health of Gulf Ports has been
Sanitary Operations. good except in the case of Bahrain,
where there was an outbreak of plague.
The outbreak originated in December of the previous year, and was con
tinued until June. It affected the adjoining Islands as well as Bahrain
itself.
i Mohammerah had three cases of plague in the first week of April.
At Bushire and at Bandar Abbas cases of plague were taken off ships and
isolated in quarantine. At Bushire there were four cases, one of which was
brought from Bahrain by the mail of 2nd February ; while the others were
taken off the " Sirdar " on 17th April, while that vessel was on her voyage from
Bombay.
At Bandar Abbas five cases in all were taken off ships ; one on the 14th
March, from the " Barpeta" coming from Bahrain and the others from the
" Sirdar", on the 12th and 13th April. As the "Sirdar" was thoroughly
infected she was sent to Mohammerah on the 17th April for disinfection and
deratisation by the Clayton Parge.
The Quarantine Station at Bushire underwent thorough repair during the
year.
The following table gives the details of the Quarantine work done at five
ports:—
Station.
Number
of
ve88els.
Number of crew
inspected on
board.
Number of
passengers on
board.
Inspected
for
port.
Bushire....
259
24,894
12,240
2,871
Mohammerah . . .
263
24,131
9,225
8,124
Bandar Abbas. . .
117
12,102
5,901
1,200
Liugah ....
80
8,361
4,520
825
J ask ....
58
6,190
3*
"to
I— 1
427
J. McPHERSON, Major , I.M.S.,
Besidency Surgeon.