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been voted for its improvement. After discussion it has been resolved
to maintain the Basrah station at its present site on -'Ajairawiyah
island, where 10 Jaribs of land will be permanently acquired for the
purpose by the Turkish Government.
Sanitary regulations and arrangements of Persia in the Persian
Gulf, 1896-1907.
We turn next to the sanitary precautions taken at the ports of
Persia since 1896.
In October 1896 the necessity of action became apparent to the Institution of
Persian Government, and an effort was 4 at first made by them to carry quarantine,
out the necessary arrangements by purely Persian agency. After much 1896 -
discussion between the Persian Government and the British Legation in
consultation with the Residency at Bushehr, an understanding was
reached which involved the minimum of injury to trade compatible with
adequate protection. For healthy vessels from India quarantine was
fixed at five days from arrival in the ports of Bushehr and Muhammareh
and at seven days in Persian ports nearer to India than Bushehr; and in the
case of plague-infected vessels passengers and cargo^ were not to be landed,
but the mails might be sent ashore without detention of the vessel. ^ The
Persian Government appear to have been conscious of their inability to
carry out the regulations satisfactorily, and almost from the^ first the
management was practically delegated to the British Residency at
Bushehr ; in the beginning, however, much obstruction was offered by the
local Persian officials, who could not reconcile themselves to the loss of
sanitary powers by which they might have grown rich veiy rapidly.
In January 1897, the Russian Government being then on the point Arrange-
of despatching Russian doctors to the Gulf ^ study the question of ^
plague prophylaxis, the Persian Government agreed to the deputation from the BrUiah
India, at their expense, of two European Assistant-Surgeons to take anthoritiee,
charge of the sanitary arrangements at Bandar' Ahhas and ^ingeh. T eee 1897.
officers left India on the 9th of February 1897, and on the following
day another Assistant-Surgeon of the Indian establishment was sent
from Bushehr to take sanitary charge of the port of Muliammareh.
The services of the Assistant-Surgeons at Bushehr and Jashk also were
requisitioned for sanitary work at their own stations. In March it was
reported that the Persian Government had sent definite orders to Bushehr
confirming the authority of the British Residency Surgeon in sanitary
matters and that the f riction with the local Persian authorities had been
to a large extent removed. The Persian gunboat Pempohs at the
same time received orders from the Person Government to crmse at the
mouth of the Gulf and to prevent coasting-vessels g
her crew were at the time in a state of mutiny, and it does not appear
that the action directed was taken.
In 1898-99 the quarantine at Persian V ort, a^inBt K^adu was
10 days from the date of departure m the case of healthy, and 10 days
from the date of arrival in the case of infected ships. a