ملف ٥٢٥٧\١٩١٩ "بلاد فارس: اللجنة العسكرية" [ظ‎‎٩‎٢] (٥٣٤/١٩١)

149.
T anding grounds with small supplies of stores would be required
l^anaing giu _ offpr Hpf,ailed remnnaicc-Qi
Aviation Training. ™ -u • •
150 Until the scheme as proposed in the preceding paragraphs is m workijj
order the Commission do not consider it feasible to start any sort of aena school,
SfexpSi would be prohibitive. It *
should be sent to Europe as soon as possible to qualify as pilots and observers. WheJ
the scheme is in force training in aviation could be carried out by the personnel
the flights at Tehran. Technical instruction could be given by means of lectures a j
uractical work in the flights and repair shops. Aerial gunnery and observers’ course
could also be arranged g Officers selected for the air force should be volunteers, 10
under 23 years of age. They should carry out preliminary flights when possible t
determine their suitability for flying. i i a + ; a- ei
151 The training of n.c.os. and men should be cairied out m the flights and
repair shops, frequent tests of a progressive nature being enforced It is considered
advisable that all n.c.os. and men in the Air Force should be volunteers.
152 The establishments recommended by the Commission lor the Tersian
t • a 'VT
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 though!
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, thi
Commission desire to emphasise the difficulties that will be encountered in formiij
such a service owing to the existing lack of medical personnel and equipment in th
country. The new Persian army of 70,000 fighting men will require an establishing
of roughly 170 medical officers and 75 pharmacists. To meet these there are ar
able not more than 30 to 40 medical officers and 20 to 30 pharmacists at an outside i
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 I
properly qualified medical men in the whole of Persia with its population of to
millions, and these are confined to the large towns. In the whole of the Pars proving
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 ” (&«
polytechnique). This institution has no practical side; dissection, histolog)
bacteriology, and operative surgery are not taught at all. There are no regulai
courses of clinical medicine or clinical surgery. There is a great dearth of
books and many of the students are entirely dependent on notes of the lectures tak®
down by themselves. The result of this is that the young medical graduate oW
Dar-ul-Fanun has no practical knowledge and is quite unlit to commence the prack e
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 Presk
terian Mission at Tehran and of the Church Missionary Society at Ispahan, wkj
turn out young men with a certain amount of clinical knowledge. Their attainments
nne, however, more on a level with those of an average Indian hospital assistant thn
those 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)/ 1
observers are agreed as to the very high incidence of infectious and venereal disorder
and the very high infant and child mortality. The Senior Medical Officer of ^
Kerman brigade of the S.P.R. reports that the death rate from enteric avera?