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'Arabia. Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office - no 90' [9] (24/148)
The record is made up of 1 volume (69 folios). It was created in 1919. It was written in English. The original is part of the 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. .
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Arabia] SANITARY CONDITIONS
9
the Gulf is distinctly cold, and there is occasionally
frost at Koweit. The average rainfall on the Arabian
side is about 5 in.
The greater part of central Arabia has a, healthy,
temperate climate, with a very scanty rainfall, and is
often extremely cold.
(4) Sanitary Conditions
The climate of Arabia, with its extreme degree ot
dryness and its constant sunshine, is for the most part
very healthy, and the population as a rule enjoy con
siderable freedom from epidemic diseases, in spite of
the entire absence of any sort of sanitation or drainage
throughout the country. The coast and those districts
bordering on it are less healthy, owing to their greater
degree of humidity, which, added to the great heat, pro
duces in various parts, e.g., Mecca, Kheibar, the coast
of Hadhramaut, conditions leading to malaria and
intermittent fever.
The annual influx of pilgrims from all parts of the
Mohammedan world at the time of the Haj naturally
means that the port of Jedda, where the pilgrims
disembark, and the places on the road to Mecca, suffer
to some extent from imported diseases.
(5) Race and Language
Race
The Arabs belong to the Semitic race^ and are not
entirely confined to Arabia, as they form a large pro
portion of the population of Syria, Mesopotamia, and
northern Africa, as well as of the country to the east
of the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
. In these countries, and also in
the coastal districts of Arabia itself, they have mixed
much with other races—Jewish, Phoenician, Turkish,
Negroid, Hamitic, &c.—but the inhabitants of the
interior of the peninsula are the nearest existing
approach to the pure Semitic type.
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This volume contains information on the geography, political history and economic conditions of Arabia and was published by the Historical Section of the Foreign Office in April 1919.
It is divided into four sections: 'Geography Physical and Political'; 'Political History'; 'Political Conditions' and 'Economic Conditions'. There is an Appendix, containing tables regarding trade in Aden, Muscat and Bahrein, 1909-1917.
There is a map 'Sketch Map of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and Arabia', compiled by the War Office on June 1914.
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- 1 volume (69 folios)
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Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins on the first folio with text, on number 1, and ends on the map on a sleeve on the inside back cover, on number 70.
Pagination: There is also an original pagination, iv-vi, 2-127.
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- Title
- 'Arabia. Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office - no 90'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:6, 1:130, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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