"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الجزء II. ج. ج. لوريمر. ١٩١٥" [‎٢‎٥‎٤‎١] (١٢٦٢/١٠٥٨)

of India had not
The reservations
the consent of
the Mixed Corn-
Convention of 1897, The representatives of Great Britain signed Persia and
subject to certain reservations^ and the representative of Persia ad abstention of
referendum ; but the representatives of Turkey, who desired to qualify an
tneir signature by reservations which virtually annulled the whole
Convention, were not permitted to sign ; and the representative of
India abstained from signing as the Government
yet decided to adhere to the Convention,
of Great Britain were as follows:—(1) that
His Majesty^s Government to the assembling of
mission for the Eevision of the Turkish Sanitary Tariff—one object
of which would be to authorise the advance of funds for the Hormuz
station—was conditional on a prominent position being given by the
Commission in its programme to the reduction of the sanitary dues at
Turkish ports ; (2) that the decisions of the Commission in voting funds
for the Hormuz scheme must be unanimous; and (3) that no steps should
be taken for the construction of the H ormuz station until the Constan
tinople Board of Health had been reorganised in the manner agreed upon
by the 1 Conference. The further views of His Majesty^s Government
having first been stated, viz., that it had been proved by recent experi
ence that no sanitary station at Hormuz was necessary for the sanitary
defence of the Gulf and that in view of the collapse of the ^Oqair station
it was doubtful whether climatic conditions would admit of the mainten
ance of a post at Hormuz, the Conference allowed the British reserva
tions to be registered.
The Convention has not yet (1906) been ratified by Great Britain, for Non-ratifica-
reasons which will appear below. Convention^ 16
by Great
Britain.
The Mixed Commission, already once referred to in connection with the
Constantinople Board of Health, was convened early in 1905 for the
fifth time in its history, and in 1906 its sittings still continued j the
principal objects which it had in view were to obtain payment of a debt
due by the Turkish Government to the Board of Health, to regulate the
pay and pensions of the employes of the Board, to provide funds for the
repair of Turkish lazarets, and to obtain—if possible a reduction of the
sanitary dues payable at Turkish ports. The proceedings showed that the
Board of Health had accumulated a reserve of more than £T 268,000 and
that the Ottoman Government were in debt to the Board to the extent of
£T150,000,—an obligation regarding the discharge of which, however, there
were serious difficulties. In view of this superfluity of funds the Biitish
representative on the Commission, Dr.Clemow, pressed for a reduction of
the Turkish Sanitary Tariff by 25 per cent., and on his motion a number
of useless or nearly useless sanitary posts were suppressed; none of these,
however, were in the Persian Gulf. A sum of £T 20,000 was also
allotted for the improvement of the existing sanitary establishment at
Basrah, a measure to which the British delegates at the Paris Conference
had drawn attention as being of greater utility than the establishment of
a new post at the entrance of the Gulf. No grant at all was made for the
proposed station at Hormuz, and a motion by the Kussian delegate that
m
Peman Gulf
scheme frus
trated by the
M ixed Com
mission,
1905-06.
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