File 2612/1912 Pt 1 ‘Tehran Sanitary Council’

Content

The volume contains part 1 of papers from and about the Tehran Sanitary Council (also referred to as the Conseil Sanitaire de l’Empire de Perse). It chiefly comprises copies of the proceedings (in French) of the 99 through to the 127 meetings of the Council, forwarded by the British Ambassador at Tehran (Sir George Head Barclay; Sir Walter Beaupre Townley) to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey), and then forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to the Under-Secretary of State for India.

The proceedings detail reports of epidemics (including plague, cholera, malaria) occurring in Persia and its neighbours (including the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Russia, India), and measures taken to implement quarantine and vaccination measures to prevent their spread. In the reports, recurring mention is made of epidemics in Kermanshah [Kermānshāh], Khorassan [Khorāsān], Bouchir [Bushire] and Astrakhan. Interspersed with the meeting proceedings are copies of British Government correspondence, chiefly in the form of detailed accounts of the meetings, written by Dr Anthony Richard Neligan, physician at the British Legation in Tehran, who attended meetings in his capacity as Doctor of the Legation (Médecins de Légations).

The part includes a divider which gives the subject and part number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence (f 3).

Extent and format

1 volume (204 folios)

Arrangement

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

The subject 2410 (Tehran Sanitary Council) consists of 2 volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/283-284. The volumes are divided into 2 parts, with each part comprising one volume.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 208; 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.

Written in

French and 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/10/283

Former external reference(s)

P 2612/1912 Pt 1

History of this record

Date(s)

10 Feb 1912-29 Dec 1913 (CE, Gregorian)

Related material

Select Bibliography

Cyril Elgood, ‘The Sanitary Council and the Quarantine Service’, in A Medical History of Persia and the Eastern Caliphate, from the Earliest Times until the Year A.D. 1932 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951), pp. 514–537.

Subjects

EpidemicsCholeraPlagueBubonic plagueMalariaVaccination programmesQuarantine

Places

PersiaBushireKermānshāh (inhabited place)KhorāsānAstrakhan

People & organisations

Tehran Sanitary CouncilBritish Legation to Tehran, Physician toHM Ambassador to IranSecretary of State for Foreign Affairs

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