File 842/1912 'Sanitary Mission to Turco-Persian Frontier'

Content

The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, tables, plans and notes, relating to concerns over sanitation near the Turco-Persian border, and diplomatic implications.

Correspondence discusses the British concern that Germany was using health matters to establish a footing in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. through the delimitation of the Ottoman-Persian border necessary to assign administrative responsibility for health.

The volume includes the printed copy 'Report on Sanitary Matters in Mesopotamia, the Shiah Holy Cities and on the Turco-Persian Frontier, being a summary of the work done by the Commission of Inspection despatched to those regions by the Constantinople Board of Health in the Winter of 1913-1914' by F G Clemow. This contains three maps along the Turco-Persian frontier and a plan of the Great Mosque of Nejef.

The volume includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, year the subject file was opened, subject heading, and list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

Extent and format

1 volume (174 folios)

It is grouped into

'I SKETCH MAP OF MESOPOTAMIA AND THE TURCO-PERSIAN FRONTIER'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/10/231, f 12

'II SKETCH MAP OF THE FORT OF BASRA'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/10/231, f 14

'III SKETCH MAP OF A PORTION OF THE TURCO-PERSIAN FRONTIER AT ITS JUCTION WITH THE SHATT-UL-ARAB RIVER (As delimited in 1913-14)'

2 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/10/231, f 17

'GROUND PLAN OF THE GREAT MOSQUE OF NEJEF MESHED ALI'

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Ref: IOR/L/PS/10/231, f 31

Arrangement

The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.

The subject 842 (Sanitary Mission to Turco-Persian Frontier) consists of 1 volume, IOR/L/PS/10/231.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 174; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 3-172; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/10/231

Former external reference(s)

P 842/1912

History of this record

Date(s)

1912-1916 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Health administration

People & organisations

Sanitary Council, TehranBoard of Health, Constantinople

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