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File 2908/1907 Pt 3 ‘Persian Gulf:- Quarantine; German complaint’ [‎86r] (171/250)

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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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Art. 42. Eailway carriages for passengers, mails, or luggage
nray not be detained at a frontier. If one of these carriages be
infected or shall have been occupied by a person suffering from
plague or from cholera, it shall be detached from the train for
disinfection at the earliest possible moment. The same procedure
shall apply in the case of goods trucks.
Art. 43. Measures in relation with the crossing of frontiers
by railway and postal staff come within the scope of the adminis
trations concerned. They should be arranged so as not to hamper
the service.
Art. 44. The regulation of frontier traffic and questions
connected therewith, as also the adoption of exceptional measures
ot surveillance, must be left as matters for special arrangement
between adjoining States.
Art. 45. The sanitary control of river-ways is a matter for
special arrangement by the Governments of States abutting
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PART II.
Special Provisions regarding Countries outside Europe,
Chapter I,
Arrivals by Sea,
Section I .—Measures at Infected Ports on the Departure of Vessels.
Art. 46. The competent authority shall take effectual measures
to prevent the embarkation of persons showing symptoms of
plague or of cholera.
Every person taking passage by a ship must be individually
examined at the time of embarkation, by day and on shore, during
such time as may be necessary, by a doctor appointed'by the
public authority. The Consular authority of the country to which
the ship belongs may be represented at this examination.
In exception of this provision, the medical examination may,
at Alexandria and Port Said, take place on board whenever the
local sanitary authority consider this course to be of service;
subject, however, to the reservation that third-class passengers
shall not afterwards be authorized to leave the ship. The medical
examination may be conducted by night in the case of first-class

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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:

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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