"العراق والخليج الفارسي" [و‎‎٨] (٨٦٢/٢٠)

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VIII. ADMINISTRATION AND PUBLIC LIFE . • -384
Historical Origins (384): Military Administration (384)—
Reform of Legal Administration (387)—Public Security (389)
—Civil Administration (389)— The Constitution (390): Ihe
Crown (391)—Parliament and Cabinet (39 1 ) Central and
Local Government (392)—Provincial Areas (394)—Municipa
lities (393)—Minority Communities (396)—Desert Administra
tion (397)—Police and Prisons (397)—Army and Air Forces
( 39 g)—Justice (400)—Law and Lawyers (402)—Waqf (402)
Education (403)—Agriculture and Land (407)-
IX. PUBLIC HEALTH AND DISEASE . . • .408
Public Health (408): Administration (408)—Hospitals (409)
Vital Statistics (410)— Diseases (412): Malaria (413)—Eye
Diseases (416)—Schistosomiasis (417)—Cholera (418; Plague
(419)—Small-pox, Typhus Fever (420)—Intestinal Infections,
Dysentery (421)—Typhoid and Paratyphoid (422)—Intestinal
Parasitic Worms (423)—Hydatid Disease, Undulant Fever (424)
—Leishmaniasis (425)—Sandfly fever, Syphilis (426)—Gonor
rhoea, Tuberculosis (427)—Leprosy, Heat-stroke (428).
X. IRRIGATION, AGRICULTURE, AND MINOR INDUSTRY 431
Irrigation (431): Origins (431)—Modern Irrigation ( 435 )~
Controlled Canal Zones of Southern Iraq (436)—Barrages and
Weirs (438)—Uncontrolled Canal Irrigation and Inundation
(439)—Irrigation by Lift (440)—Northern Iraq (441)— Land
Tenure (442): Ownership (443)—Farmers and Tenants ( 445 )—-
Agriculture (447) • General Conditions ( 447 ) Soils ( 449 )
—Tools and Methods (450)—Land Settlement and size of
Holdings, Research, Education ( 453 )— Crops (454): Barley
(454)—Wheat (455)—Rice (456)—Dates (457)—Cotton (459)
—Tobacco (460)—Minor Crops (461)—Fruit, Vegetables (462)
—Wild Plants (463)—Pests and Disease (464)— Stock-breeding
(466): Sheep (467)—Goats, Cattle (468)—Donkeys, Florses,
Mules (470)—Diseases and Veterinary Department (471)
Minor Industries (472)—Miscellaneous Domestic Needs (474)
—Minerals, Engineering, Labour (475) Statistics (476).
XL CURRENCY, FINANCE, COMMERCE, AND OIL . . 47 s
Currency (478)— Finance (479) : The Budget (480) Revenue
(482)—Expenditure (484)—The Ottoman Debt (485) Banking
(4.86)— Commerce (486): Invisible Exports (488)—Transit
Trade (488)—Principal Exports and Imports (489)—Customers
and Suppliers (489)—Shipping Lines (492) Oil (492) • I he
Kirkuk Oilfield (494)—Naft Kharieh Oilfield (496)—Oil in the
Persian Gulf (497)—Rafidain Oil Company (497)—Oil Royalties
and Finance (498).