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U q Landino- grounds with small supplies of stores would be required on aerial
MU. i^anamg ^ , i nftpr detailed reconnaissanoA
as i^North Persia and should be selected after detailed reconnaissance.
routes as
Force are shown in Appendix XI.
Civil Aviation.
153. It would be an economy to share the cost of maintenance of aerodromes,
landing grounds, &c., with civil aviation authorities, and the Commission recommend
that every effort be made to co-operate with civil aviation to this end. It is thought
that great saving could be effected by sharing workshops, technical personnel, &c.
154. The Commission recommend that in any concessions granted to companies
for civil aviation, the above points be provided for, also for the utilisation of civil
aircraft for military purposes in the event of serious military operations.
(viii) Organisation of the Medical and Veterinary Services.
(a.) The Medical Service.
Preliminary Considerations.
155. In submitting proposals for a medical service for the Persian army, the ,
Commission desire to emphasise the difficulties that will be encountered in forming
such a service owing to the existing lack of medical personnel and equipment in the i
country. The new Persian army of 70,000 fighting men will require an establishmert I
of roughly 170 medical officers and 75 pharmacists. To meet these there are avail
able not more than 30 to 40 medical officers and 20 to 30 pharmacists at an outside
estimate.
156. The question of an army medical service cannot be separated from that of
the medical needs of Persia as a whole. There are probably not more than 30 to 10
properly qualified medical men in the whole of Persia with its population of ten
millions, and these are confined to the large towns. In the whole of the Pars province
there are only four qualified doctors and in the Kerman province only four.
157. Tehran possesses a so-called medical school in a Dar-ul-Fanun ” (Ecole
polytechnique). This institution has no practical side; dissection, histology, 1
bacteriology, and operative surgery are not taught at all. There are no regular
courses of clinical medicine or clinical surgery. There is a great dearth of text
books and many of the students are entirely dependent on notes of the lectures taken :
down by themselves. The rbsult of this is that the young medical graduate of the
F)ai-ul-Fanun has no practical knowledge and is quite unfit to commence the practice
of his profession without a term of instruction and study as an interne in a hospital-
In addition to the Dar-ul-Fanun there are.small hospitals of the American Presby* I
terian Mission at Tehran and of the Church Missionary Society at Ispahan, which
turn out young men with a certain amount of clinical knowledo'e Their attainments
are, however, more on a level with those of an average Indian hospital assistant than
tnose of a European medical graduate.
158. Although there is no registration of deaths in Persia and while it ^
impossible to obtain even approximate statistics as to occurrence of disease, ^ I
observers are agreed as to the very high incidence of infectious and venereal disorders
and the very high infant and child mortality. The Senior Medical Officer of the
Kerman brigade of the S.P.R. reports that the death rate from enteric averages