"تقرير عسكري عن بلاد فارس - المجلد I ١٩٣٠" [و‎‎٢‎٤] (١٥٤/٥٢)

( 6 ) Health.
Fevers are prevalent. Mosquitoes flourish up to a height
of 4,000 feet, and their chief haunts are in the stagnant
P - i S ‘ Malaria is therefore prevalent and nets are essen
tial. Sand flies are also very troublesome; they may, how
ever, be avoided by sleeping away from any damp walls.
Water should afways be looked on with suspicion, as it
comes tiom various sources and should invariably be either
treated with chemicals or boiled.
Dust is very prevalent during the summer and autumn
and some sort of protection, which umuld also serve the
purpose of glare glasses should be worn. This is also essen
tial during the winter owing to snow.
A tropical disease known as “ Salik ” is very common
and m appearance and characteristics very like the Delhi
i ' Ch ° lera occasionally visits Khurasan. In 1908 :
, ,938 Pei’sons died of plague. A malignant bloodsucking
bug, causing blood poisoning and tick fever is found at
several places, notably at Gifan and on the Meshed-Turbat-
i-Daidan road. >
Peisian dwellings and sarais should be avoided and never
occupied without being thoroughly disinfected.
Anthrax is very common in man and beast.
Venereal diseases are rife.
(B) Seistan.
• ^ S ^ r ’ c ^. 1 k nown as Seistan, which sometimes was
independent alike of Persia and Afghanistan, included all
the region drained by the Helmand and other rivers which
discharge their waters into the Hamun. Of this area 2 847
square miles only are now Persian, the remainder Afghan,
the name Seistan, however, now has reference only to the
foimer, the Afghan portion being known as Chakansur.
due accepted boundary line between Persian Seistan and
lono istan, as laid down by the Arbitration Commission.
n ^ rom Kuh-i-Malik Siah in a straight line to the
Band-i-Seistan, and thence along the bed of the Helmand
■o the point of separation of its two branches, the R.ud-i-
Parian and the Nad-i-Ali channel. From there it follows
the bed of the Nad-i-Ali channel into the Sikhsar and along
the bed of the Sikhsar to a point near Deh Jar Muham