ملف رقم ٣٠٠٤ لسنة ١٩١٠ "المجلس الصحي في طهران" [و‎‎٦‎٩] (٥١٦/١٤٢)

[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty’s Government.]
WITH reference to my despatch No. 15 of the 12th July, I have the honour to
transmit herein copy of a report compiled by the physician to His Majesty’s legation
on the ninety-third meeting of the Sanitary Council held at Tehran on the -list July.
As will he observed from Dr. Neligan’s report, the note of Dr. JPeistmantel,
which elicited a protest from Captain McConaghy, the chief medical officer in the
Gulf, was satisfactorily disposed of, with little credit to its author.
I HAVE the honour to submit to you a report of the ninety-third meeting of the
Sanitary Council held at Tehran on the 31st July, myself in the chair.
Plague in the Persian Gulf. —The epidemic, which has carried off about
2,000 people, has come to an end, and directions to raise the quarantine were
telegraphed to the Gulf Sanitary Service on the 4th July.
' Cholera in Cholera appeared at Semara about the middle of June. ^By
the middle of July it had reached Baku and Astrakhan, hut the cases have been few,
and the epidemic on the whole very much milder than that of last year. The council
decided to institute a medical visit for all ships arriving in Persian ports from
Astrakhan and Baku. #
Cholera in Turkey and in the Persian Gulf. —Cholera broke out in the neighbour
hood of Amara on the Tigris on the 15th June. On the 15th July it appeared at
Bussorah, and on the 25th two cases occurred on board the Persian gun-boat
“ Persepolis ” at Mohammerah. A few cases have been notified from Bagdad.
Arrivals from the latter at Kasr-i-Shirin undergo a medical visit, and quarantine was
declared against Turkey in all the Persian ports of the Gulf on the 24th July, and
against Mohammerah on the 27th July. A quarantine station has been foimed at
Ahwaz, under the charge of the assistant surgeon attached to our consulate.
The Quarantine Stations at Enzeli and at Astara.—The works are now being carried
out without interruption.
The Austrian Delegate and the origin of recent epidemics of Plague in the Persian
Gulf.—Dr. Eeistmantel read a note on this subject at the ninetieth meeting of the
council held on the 1st May last. On the 17th June Captain McConaghy, I.M.S.,
chief medical officer in the Gulf, sent a telegram to the Sanitary Council, protesting
against the note. Hr. Eeistmantel was not present at the meeting held on the
3rd July, and I therefore, as stated in my report of that meeting, put off reading the
telegram until this meeting. Colonel Cox sent a copy of Captain McConaghy s
telegram to His Majesty’s legation on the 17th June (Bushire telegram No. 132), and
on the 18th June he wrote a detailed despatch (No. 51) on the questions raised by
Dr. Feistmantel’s note.
In the telegram in question Captain McConaghy—
1. Pointed out that as far as the epidemic at Lingah in 1904 was concerned, the
note was simply an inaccurate copy of an appendix written by Dr. Bussffiie to the
report of Dr. Eaivre on the “ Defense sanitaire du Golfe Persique ” (1906). ^ That the
details there given were exaggerated and not authoritative, lhat the official reports
of the Gulf Sanitary Service gave a very different (less) mortality.
EASTERN SANITARY REFORMS.
[August 28.]
CONFIDENTIAL.
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No. 1.
Sir G. Barclay to Sir Edward Grey*—{Received August 28.)
(No. 17. Commercial.)
Gulhek, August 15, 1911.
Sir,
I have, &c.
G. BARCLAY.
Enclosure in No. 1.
Dr. Neligan to Sir G. Barclay.
Sir,
Gulhek, August 8, 1911.
Copy sent to India Office and Local Government Board, September 6, 1911.
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