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File 2908/1907 Pt 3 ‘Persian Gulf:- Quarantine; German complaint’ [‎87v] (174/250)

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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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When plague or cholera has occurred among the crew only, no
soiled linen shall be disinfected save that of the crew, the whole of
which, however, shall undergo disinfection; the crew s quarters
shall also he disinfected.
Art. 54. Infected ships shall be divided into two classes: ships
with a doctor and a disinfecting apparatus (disinfecting chamber),
and ships without a doctor and without a disinfecting apparatus
(disinfecting chamber).
(a.) Ships without a doctor and without a disinfecting apparatus
(disinfecting chamber) shall be detained at Moses’ Wells ;* persons
that show symptoms of plague or cholera shall be disembarked and
isolated in a hospital. Disinfection shall be thoroughly carried
out. The other persons shall be disembarked and isolated in as
small groups as possible, so that, if plague or cholera break out in
one group, the whole party will not be affected. The soiled linen
and the clothing of passengers and crew, and other articles used
by them, shall be disinfected, as also shall the ship.
It is to be understood that there is no question of discharging
merchandize, but only of disinfecting the infected part of the
ship.
The passengers shall remain five days at an establishment
appointed by the Egyptian Sanitary Maritime and Quarantine
Board. When cases of plague and cholera have not occurred for
several days the term of isolation shall be shortened. Its duration
shall vary according to the date of recovery, death, or isolation of
the last case. Thus, if six days have elapsed since the recovery,
death, or isolation of the last case, the period of observation shall
be one day; if only five days have elapsed, the period shall be two
days ; if only four days have elapsed, the period shall be three
days ; if only three days have elapsed, the period shall be four
days; if only two days or one day have elapsed, the period shall
be five days.
(6.) Ships with a doctor and a disinfecting apparatus (dis
infecting chamber) shall be detained at Moses’ Wells. The ship’s
doctor must state, on oath, which persons on board have symptoms
of plague or of cholera. These persons shall be disembarked and
isolated.
After these persons have been disembarked, such of the soiled
linen of the other passengers as the sanitary authority regards as
dangerous and that of the crew shall be disinfected on board.
When plague or cholera has occurred only among the crew, the
disinfection of linen shall be carried out only as regards the soiled
linen of the crew and the linen of the crew’s quarters.
The ship’s doctor must also declare, on oath which part or
compartment of the ship was occupied by the sick and to which
* The sick shall, as far as possible, bo landed at Moses’ Wells; the
other persons may be kept under observation at a sanitary station
appointed by the Egyptian Sanitary Maritime and Quarantine Board
(pilots’ lazaret),

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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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