Coll 29/35 'Quarantine medical officer at Lingah in 1928-29; cost of retention' [‎16r] (31/46)

agreed to bear a moiety of the cost involved in the future
maintenance of the post of Medical Officer, Bandar Abbas, as v/ell
as a moiety of the cost involved in the temporary retention of
why the Foreign Office propose to base the incidence of the cost
of the maintenance of the post of Medical Officer, Lingah, after
the transfer of the quarantine arrangement to the Persian
Go vernment* on Government of Indian telegram 1 TOo 1020-S, da ted
the 21st kay 1928. Ko request that the Foreign Office should
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bear a moiety of the expenditure in question was made as it was
assumed that it would follow the incidence of expenditure on
account of the Medical Officer at Bandar Abbas,
2. Moreover for the period from 1st August 1928- the date on
which quarantine arrangements were handed over to the Persian
medical staff, to 31st January 1929 the quarantine Medical
Officer at Lingah was also the Consular Agent of the Lingah
Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. and as the entire expenditure in connection therewith was
divisible, the Government of India consider that the Foreign
Office refusal to bear a moiety of the Consular Agents pay is
unjustifiable,
3, I am to request therefore that if the Secretary of State
for India sees no objection the Foreign Office may be asked to
re-consider their decision in this matter,
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
the Medical Officer there. This being so, it is not understood
Deputy Secretary to the Government of India.
(With 2 spare copies.)