ملف رقم ٣٠٠٤ لسنة ١٩١٠ "المجلس الصحي في طهران" [و‎‎٧‎٤] (٥١٦/١٥٢)

meeting of bhe Gouncil held -in the list •May last.
On June I? 0: otain McConaghey I. ! .S, Chief Medical
Of - ioer in the oulf sent a telegraza to the Sanitary
Council oro testing against the note* Doctor Fe is truant ei
rax not present at the meeting- hold on July 3,and I
therefore,as stated in my report of that meeting,
nut off reading the telegram until this meeting.
Colonel Co-* sent a cony of Certain McConaghy’s telegram
to T # M. Legation on June 17(dushire telegram 110.733}
and oo June X8 he ^rote a letailed Desna,tch (hio.5X/T600)
on the questions raised hy Dr.Pelstraante1 *s note*
In the telegram in question Certain McConaghy t~
1. Pointed ou t th a1 j ox for as the erldemic at Lingo^J,
in 1904 was concerned,the note was siarly an ina,ccurate
cony of an annenli s written by Dr. Jus si ere to the
report oi Dr.Faivre on she "Defense Sanitaire du Golfe
Persique" (I906). j.'h a, t t) e letsiIs there given were
exaggerated and not authoritative^. That the of icial
reports of the cult sanitary service gave a very
•1 i f - 'erent (levs) mortal j ty.
2. .Showed that the statement that the eoidemic of
uTagiie at ushire in Idjo -ms caused h.y the irnnortation
of a cargo of old hedging from Bahrein,had no 1 axis:
in feet he Declared cat©©‘oricralv in Ms rerort on the
r
epidemic that though the origin of the outhreodc
obscure- it m rtainly could not he traced to Bahrein.
3 Protested eg’ainst use being made of unofficial
reports "’hen rdiere were of iOial r snorts ready to hand.
Dr„Peistmanta 1 re;ad a long r* r>ly to this tc-legrem.
.it; had only one object in wr/iting hie origina.1 note
and that was to clear up if poa?: ible the origin of the
epidemf C-f