"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الجزء II. ج. ج. لوريمر. ١٩١٥" [‎٢‎٥‎٢‎٧] (١٢٦٢/١٠٤٤)

^ enforcing upon all vessels navigating the Shatt-al-^Arab recogni
tion of a sanitary station which they had established at Fao about
il85, i 187^. A subsidiary object of the Turks was probably to secure the
quarantine fees which they lost through passengers disembarking at
Muhammareh and proceeding thence to Basrah by land. Early in 1892
the Turkish Government openly urged the necessity of a station such
as Fao in order to prevent the evasion of sanitary control by passengers
for Basrah who might disembark at Muhammareh; but their suggestions,
aiming at international recognition of the Fao station, were opposed by
the representatives of Great Britain and Russia upon the Constantinople
Board of Health and were for the moment dropped. At the beginning
of 1894, however, the Board of Health, yielding doubtless to Turkish
representations, advised that a quarantine station should be established
at Fao for the reception of arrivals from India, also a floating lazaret in
the Shatt-al-^Arab above the mouth of the Karun to deal with passengers
from Muhammareh to Basrah.
The sanitary proceedings of the Persians in connection with the Persia.
Gulf epidemic of 1893 have already been noticed above.
Cholera Conference at Paris, 1894.
iii
Early in 1894, at the invitation of the French Government, there
assembled in Paris another International Sanitary Conference; on this
occasion Persia as well as Turkey and Great Britain was a party. This
Conference, which was supplementary to the Conferences of Venice and
Dresden, confined its attention to precautions against cholera in connection
with the Makkah-Madmah pilgrimage by Muhammadans and to the
introduction of a system of sanitary control in the Persian Gulf, a
region of which the circumstances had not before received separate
consideration.
Ships in the Persian Gulf were treated by the Conference under
the three heads, now well established, of " healthy " (C suspected and
" infected ", and the maximum period of detention for arrivals by an
" infected " ship was fixed at 5 days after arrival, while it was recom
mended that the passengers and crews of " suspected ' ships such,
namely, as had had cases of cholera on board but not within 7 days
should be subjected to 5 days' observation reckoned from the time of
quitting the port of jdeparture. Various other precautionary measures
of a reasonable character were also prescribed in the case of infected
and " suspected 33 ships.
It was further resolved that the sanitary management of the entire
Persian Gulf should be centred in a large quarantine station near Fao,
to be established on terra firm a and completely equipped m every respect.
The existing sanitary post at Basrah was to be maintained, but it was
to be supplemented by a small lazaret on an island near Basrah for
the supervision of passengers who had escaped examination at Fao; and
Treatment
recommended
for ships in
the Persian
Gulf.
Sanitary
organisation
proposed for
the Persian
Gulf,