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File 2908/1907 Pt 3 ‘Persian Gulf:- Quarantine; German complaint’ [85v] (170/250)
The record is made up of 1 item (125 folios). It was created in 26 Feb 1903-1 Dec 1908. 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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BSBHBB
port aniN'es i a a large sea-port, such ship should not be sent away
to another port with a view to the carrying out of the sanitary
measures prescribed.
In every country, the ports open to arrivals from ports infected
with plague or cholera must be so equipped that healthy ships can
there undergo the prescribed measures upon their arrival and be
not sent to another port for the purpose. Governments shall make
known what ports in their country are open to arrivals from ports
infected with plague or cholera.
Art. 36. It is recommended that there be provided in large
sea-ports:—
(a.) A properly-organized port medical service and permanent
medical supervision of the health-conditions of crews and of the
population of the port;
(b.) Suitable accommodation for the isolation of the sick and
for keeping suspected persons under observation;
(c.) Bacteriological laboratories and the buildings and plant
necessary for efficient disinfection ;
(rf.) A supply of drinking water of quality above suspicion at
the disposal ot the port, and a system of scavenging that offers
every possible guarantee for the removal of excrement and refuse.
Section I\ .— Measures at land frontiers. — Travellers .—
Rail ways.—Fran tier t rads.—River ways.
Art. 37. Land quarantine must no longer be resorted to. Only
such persons as show symptoms of plague or of cholera may be
detained at frontiers.
This principle does not deprive a State of the right to close a
portion of its frontier's in case of need.
Ait. 08 . It is important that the railway staff keep watch over
the state of health of travellers.
Ait. 30. Medical intervention shall be limited to inspection of
travellers and care of the sick. When this inspection is resorted
to, it shall, as far as possible, be combined with the Customs’
examination in order that travellers may suffer as little delay as
po.->si a e. Only those persons who are visibly ailing shall be
subjected to a thorough medical examination.
rV, 1 - 4n ; ^ ’ s a measure of the greatest value to subject
travellers that have come from an infected place, on their arrival at
their destination, to surveillance for a period which should not
exceed ten or five days, reckoned from the date of their departure,
m the case of plague or cholera respectively.
, 41. Governments have the right reserved to them of
a nig special measures in regard of certain classes of piersons,
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The item consists of part three of the subject file 2908/1907 Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. : Quarantine. This part broadly covers two topics: the proceedings of the International Sanitary Conference at Paris (1903) and complaints made by German consular staff at Bushire against the conduct of Captain Thomas Beauchamp Williams whilst undertaking his duties as Chief Quarantine Officer in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
Correspondence outlining the details of three quarantine incidents has been included:
- a breach of quarantine regulations by an unnamed Russian Munshi A term used in the Middle East, Persia and South Asia to refer to a secretary, assistant or amanuensis. Munshis were employed in the British administration in the Gulf. aboard the SS Mandura on 6 March 1907: see folios 41-42
- the detention of Herr Krumpeter of Messrs Wonckhaus and Company in connection with a visit by the SS Savoia to Bushire between 8-9 July 1907: see folios 35-40
- the infringement of quarantine rules by Herr Krumpeter during a visit to Bushire by the SS Galicia on 10 June 1907
Complaints against Captain Williams over his conduct during the latter two incidents were lodged by Count Quadt, German Minister at Tehran, at the Tehran Sanitary Council: see folios 4-6 for related papers. A copy – in French – of a report of the proceedings of the fifty-third session of the Tehran Sanitary Council can be found on folios 11-14.
A copy – in French with English translation – of the International Sanitary Convention, signed at Paris 3 December 1903, can be found on folios 43-108. For supplementary correspondence outlining the proceedings of the British delegation at the Conference, see folios 109-125.
The main correspondents are as follows: HM Minister at Tehran (Sir Cecil Arthur Spring Rice), HM Chargé d'affaires at Tehran (Charles Murray Marling), 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. (Major Percy Zachariah Cox), the Chief Quarantine Officer in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , the German Consul at Bushire (Dr Franz Listermann), officials of the Foreign Office, and officials of the 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. .
No papers have been filed for the years 1905-1906.
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The papers are arranged in chronological order from the rear (folio 125) to the front of the part (folio 1).
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