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'File 2/14 Outbreaks of smallpox, cholera and other diseases on the Trucial Coast' [56r] (111/808)
The record is made up of 1 file (402 folios). It was created in 15 Dec 1935-10 Sep 1942. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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3S14/17/36.
Station Si ok ^strters, f
Royal Air Force,
Hinaidi, ^iraq,
3rd. January, 1935.
The principal Medical officer.
Air Headquarters,
British Forces in f lraq,
HIHAIBI, 'Iraq.
Sir,
I have the honour to submit the following report
on my visit to Sharjah on 31.IS*35.
Upon arrival, it was found that the imperial
Airways Rest House at Sharjah is separated from the outskirts
of Sharjah Town by about a mile and a half of open desert
country. The Rest House is a converted fort in which live
five or six Englishmen (employees of imperial Airways), as
members of the permanent staff* The rest of the personnel
is entirely native, and numbers about sixty, nearly all these
natives live in a settlement of their own just outside the
barbed wire surrounds of the Rest House and aerodrome. They
are not, however, forbidden to enter Sharjah Town when and as
they please.
I, personnally, vaccinated the entire native
staff and such of the English staff as had not been success
fully vaccinated during the last year.
Upon enquiry, it was deduced that the only native
personnel with which Imperial Airways passengers would come
into contact, were the bearers employed in a domestic capacity
in bedrooms, dining rooms etc. These bearers live in the
Rest House.
I also interviewed the Native
political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
for
Sharjah and obtained from him the latest figures of small pox
incidence and mortality in the neighbouring towns.
The figures are appended herewith
Town.
Population.
Small pox C&ses
(approx.)
Deaths during
previous week.
SHARJAH.
3,000
100
13
DUBAI.
£15,000
500
60
RA3 AL KH1IMA
30
4
UMMAD ^GWAIN.
-
80
4
AJMAH.
•m
15
7
HEERA.
-
30
a
0
The nearest of these towns to Sharjah is Dubai,
which is about 15 miles distant by road.
The actual source of the infection is unknown, small
pox is endemic in the Truoial Oman, and it is seldom that there
are not a few cases in one or other of the towns. This, coupled
with the fact that (in Sharjah, at least) there is no form of
sanitation, there is filth, squalor, and overcrowding everywhere,
and vaccination is not rigorously practised, is sufficient
reason to account for the seasonal epidemics of small pox in
this area.
jIII P.T.O.Contd
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The file contains correspondence and telegrams between the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Bahrain; K S Husain bin Hamad, in charge of the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. at Sharjah; the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. in the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. ; the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; and Yusuf bin Ahmed Kanoo; regarding outbreaks of smallpox and other diseases on the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. .
The file mostly contains documents regarding a smallpox epidemic in the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. : weekly statistics and telegrams showing deaths by smallpox in 1936, in English and Arabic.
The file also contains requests for supply of vaccines, vaccinations, quarantine measures, requests for the intervention for Dr Ralph Holmes, Medical Officer at the Victoria Memorial Hospital, and reports from Dr Holmes' work in Sharjah.
There is correspondence in Arabic with English translation, with the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. Agent at Sharjah and with the ruler of Ras-al-Khaimah, Shaikh Sultan bin Salim Al Qasimi.
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- 1 file (402 folios)
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The papers in the file are arranged chronologically. There are file notes at the end, on folios 367-403. The notes are arranged chronologically and refer to documents within the file.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 404; 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. Two additional foliation sequences are present in parallel between ff 3-364 and between ff 368-383; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- 'File 2/14 Outbreaks of smallpox, cholera and other diseases on the Trucial Coast'
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- front, front-i, 2r:4v, 6r:6v, 9r:13v, 14v:32v, 33v:35v, 36v, 37v:39v, 40v:41v, 42v:43v, 45r:48v, 50r:51v, 53r:53v, 55r:57v, 58v:59v, 60v:72v, 75r:75v, 76v:80v, 81v:83v, 85r:98v, 101r:101v, 102v:104v, 105v:112v, 117r:133v, 134v:140v, 141v:143v, 144v:150v, 151v:153v, 155v:160v, 162r:167v, 169r:172v, 176r:177v, 178v:182v, 183v:185v, 186v:194v, 195v:198v, 199v:207v, 208v:209v, 210v:212v, 214r:230v, 231v:232v, 233v:236v, 239r:241v, 243r:259v, 264r:270v, 271v:286v, 287v:292v, 294r:295v, 297r:304v, 307r:320v, 322r:328v, 331r:347v, 348v:349v, 350v:359v, 360v:403v, back-i, back
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