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File 2908/1907 Pt 3 ‘Persian Gulf:- Quarantine; German complaint’ [‎100r] (199/250)

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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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l^c^Delegate acting as intermediary between the Board and
tne ►Sublime 1 orte, known as Mouhass^bedgi.
Art. 167. The appointment of the Inspector-General, the
Assistant-Inspector, and the Delegate before-mentioned, nominated
b} the Board, shall be ratified by the Turkish Government.
T , ArL 1G8 - The High Contracting Parties recognize the right of
j i ou in a n 1 a, as a Maritime Power, to representation by a Delegate
on the Board. J °
Art. iGA The Delegates of the several States must be duly
qualified doctors, holding the diploma of a European faculty of
niedmme, and belonging to the nation they represent, or Consular
officials of rank not lower than A' ice-Consul or of equivalent rank.
The Delegates must be in no way connected with the local
authority or with a shipping company.
These provisions shall not apply to the Delegates now in
office.
Art. 1/0. The decisions of the Superior Board of Health,
carried by a majority of its members, shall come into force,
without appeal.
The Governments signing this Convention agree that their
representatives at Constantinople shall be instructed to inform the
Turkish Government of this Convention and to approach that
Government with a view to securing its accession thereto.
Art. 171. The enforcement and the control of the provisions of
this Convention regarding the pilgrimages and of measures against
the introduction and the spread of plague and of cholera, shall be
entrusted,^within the scope of the Constantinople Superior Board
of Health’s jurisdiction, to a Committee selected from among
members of that Board exclusively, and composed of representa
tives of the several Powers adhering to this Convention.
The representatives of Turkey on this Committee shall be three
in number ; one of them shall be the President of the Committee,
AVhen the votes are equally divided, the President shall have a
casting vote.
Art. 1/2. Ihere shall be a staff of qualified doctors, well-
trained disinfecters and mechanics, and also sanitary guards
selected from persons who have been officers or non-commissioned
officers of higher than corporal’s rank in the military service,
whose duty it shall be to secure, within the jurisdiction of the
Constantinople Superior Board of Health, the proper working of
the several sanitary establishments enumerated in and prescribed
by this Convention.
Art. 173. The sanitary authority of a Turkish port of call or of
arrival, which has convicted anyone of an infringement of the

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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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