'File No. II/9 Foreign Dept Memoranda of Information re. affairs in Persian Gulf, Maskat & Arabian Shore of the Persian Gulf. Nov '07 - Dec '08.' [‎53v] (108/132)

the fast mail steamers, Major Cox was of opi
nion that no need tor any immediate action on
our part seemed to exist. He added that, until
the f olitical side of the question was decided, it
was diihcult for 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. Surgeon to make
revised suggestions from a medical point of
view. The extent to which Sheikh Mubarak
was likely to be guided by our advice in the
matter in the near future depended on the
measure of assistance which the British Gov
ernment gave him in connection with his Fao
properties. As there was no epidemic in the
Gulf itself and as the slow mails were out of
quarantine before they reached Roweit
the Sheikh’s solution of the difficulty would
suffice for the time being, unsatisfactory
though his attitude undoubtedly was.
182. (Vide para. 131, July 1908.) On
Employment on qua- the 27th August 1908,
Assistant^Sui^g.on In Government of
charge of the Telegraph India recommended to
station at Reshire. the Secretary of State
the proposals contained in Major Cox, letter of
the 4th June regarding the employment on
quarantine duties of the Assistant Surgeon in
charge of the telegraph station at Reshire, and
expressed a hope that His Majesty’s Gov
ernment would agree to bear a moiety of the
extra expenditure involved.
183. (Fide para. 156, August 1908.)
Reforms in the Persian the 19th July
Gulf quarantine 1908, Captain A. P.
arrangements. Trevor> ^
to the Resident in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , forwarded,
for the information of the Government of
India, copies of certain correspondence
regarding the infringement of quarantine
rules by Herr Krumpeter of the firm of Messrs.
Wonckhaus & Co. It appears that on the 11th
June, Captain T. S. B. Williams, I.M.S., the
Chief Quarantine officer in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ,
brought to the notice of Dr. Listemann, the
German Consul, Bushire, that on the 10th
June, Herr Krumpeter, the Agent of the
Hamburg-American Line, together with his
wife, boarded the S.S. “ Galicia ” before she
had been inspected by the medical officer and
given pratique, which was quite contrary to
the Quarantine Regulations of the Port.
The German Consul, Bushire, replying on
the 16th June, stated that he had no inform
ation about any regulations which might
have been laid down, particularly for the port
of Bushire, and requested to be supplied with
a copy of the rules and of the circumstances
in which they were published. He further
stated that when Herr Krumpeter boarded the
steamer she was neither in the port nor in
the Bushire anchorage. The desired inform,
ation was supplied by Captain Williams, and
the incident was satisfactorily closed.