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Coll 54/2 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Working Party' [‎100v] (200/642)

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The record is made up of 1 file (320 folios). It was created in 11 Apr 1949-13 Apr 1950. 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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labour, but which has rocoivcd some Government encouragement.#r
8 . Health
In a country so backward and undeveloped as Saudi -Arabia
it is natural that the health problems are innumerable*
t There is an urgent need for greater facilities for workers in
preventive medicine as well as in pathology. In the fields
of preventive medicine not only the general work of hygien^o
, .and elimination of insect borne diseases, but also the
special question of Quarantine in connexion with the annual
influx of thousands of pilgrims from other countries of the
Moslem world, present an enormous problem, the solution of
which has only begun to be attempted.> « In - the field of
preventive medicine there is a special need for ophthalmological
work. (Of patients attending for eye treatment in Jedda,
a quarter are blind in one or both eyes.) *,
Until recently medical work in Saudi Arabia was
conducted almost entirely by Syrians. A small group of
Syrian doctors was established at.Jedda under a Syrian
director for public health. In 1948, however, a British
public health expert. Doctor Gorki!!, and an export in
pathology. Colonel Manifold have been appointed to advise on
the reorganisation of the health system with particular
reference to the pilgrim quarantine arrangements, and a
British eye •■specialist, Doctor Longinotto has been working
for the past 2^ years in .the Jodda Government General
Hospital. In addition, a field ambulance, manned by two
German doctors, has been travelling round the interior.
The British advisors appointed by the-:Government have
proposed a large scale plan of reorganisation and development
for the country’s health services. Already three million
rtyale have been allocated by the Government for this purpose
and. it is intended to enlarge the hospital at Jedda and to
build a new eye hospital there, ;and also to build a hospital
, at Dammam on 'the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . A hospital .with 140 bods
has also recently boon opened in Mecca. A -school for
training sanitary inspectors, is to be established at Jodda
and a Sudanese Public Health Inspector is to be appointed.
Recommendations for starting a school for training nurses
midwives and health visitors, under British direction,
have been made. Doctor Gorki11 has already obtained some
.of the essential equipment from this country and a
considerable quantity of medical stores have been
presented to the Saudi-Arabian Government by His Majesty’s
Government. The equipment already installed includes X-ray
apparatus and machines for the large-scale disinfestation of
the fly-ridden towns.
It would thus appear that Dr. Gorki11 has succeeded,
by his energy and enthusiasm, in establishing a new
approach to medical problems in Saudi Arabia. In a recent
letter, he has written that: ”1 believe the biggest
difficulties are over, i.e. (a) the Syrian opposition,
(b) Islamic.conservative opposition, (c) the starting of
the charges.” ‘
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The file contains papers relating to the Working Party of the Middle East (Official) Committee. It mainly consists of Working Party papers received by the Commonwealth Relations Office, and a register of these papers with notes at the back of the file.

The file includes agendas for meetings of the Working Party. It also includes papers circulated to members of the Working Party for consideration at meetings, relating to the following subjects: economic and social development in the Middle East in general; the Iraq Central Development Board; the question of an International Bank Loan for Iraq; a visit to Bahrain in January/February 1949 by Matthew Thomas Audsley; the Persian [Iranian] Seven-Year Plan; employment of British experts in the Middle East; a survey of the oil resources of the Middle East; and economic factors in Middle East development.

In addition, the file includes papers relating to economic and social development of the following places: Iraq; Greater Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan ; Saudi Arabia; Cyrenaica, Tripolitania [Libya], Eritrea, and Somalia; the Colony of Aden and the Aden Protectorate; the Lebannon; Ethiopia; Sudan; and Yemen.

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1 file (320 folios)
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The papers are arranged in reverse chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.

Numbers in red pen on the top right hand corner of items in the file refer to entries in the register of papers received by the Commonwealth Relations Office at the back of the file.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 320; 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.

A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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