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File 2908/1907 Pt 3 ‘Persian Gulf:- Quarantine; German complaint’ [‎119v] (238/250)

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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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„ n „ r -t m qlso to enclose copies of a Despatch
Sanitary Conference - the British delegates to the Conference,
addressed to brs ^krpbyibe ™ ^fts obtained and of the
attitude'of tVdelegates with regard to the various questions which
arose- I am, &c.,
The Tinder Secretary of State F - A ' Campbbll -
for India.
British Delegates to the Marquess of Lansdowne.
, r , (Confidential.) 20th 190 4.
* ^ our numbered series of Despatches we have endeavoured to
keep vour Lordship informed of the proceedings of the International
Sanitary Conference, which culminated in the signature, on the 3rd
December last, of a new Sanitary Convention. . .
It is perhaps fitting that we should submit to your Lordship m a imai
despatch a general statement of the results obtained, and of our attitude
with regard to the various questions dealt with. ^ .
The Conference was attended hy delegations from the following
23 Powers: Germany, Argentine Bepublic, Austria-Hungaiy,
Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, Spain, United States, Prance, Great Britain,
Greece, Italy, Luxemburg, Montenegro, Holland, Persia, Portugal,
Roumania, Pussia, Servia, Sweden and Norway, Switzerland, and
Turkey. In the British delegation India, and in the Turkish Dele
gation Egypt, were represented hy separate Delegates. With few
exceptions every Power was represented hy both diplomatic and
technical Delegates. 4 - t
The opening meeting of the Conference was held on the 10th October,
and the closing meeting, at which the Convention was signed, took
place on the 3rd December. In all seven plenary meetings were held ;
but the detailed work of the Conference was done in Committee.
Three Committees were appointed, and it will be most convenient to
discuss the different questions as near as may he in the order in which
they were dealt with by those Committees.
The three Committees were :—
(A) The Ways and Means Committee.
(B) The Technical Committee.
(C) The Codification Committee.
(A) Questions dealt with hy the Ways and Means Committee.
]. The Constantinople Board of Health.
The need for reorganising this body was admitted hy all the dele
gations, with the exception of the Turkish. The proposals that the
Turkish members should he reduced to four; that the two Inspectors
should he named hy the Board itself; that Poumania should be repre
sented on the Board"; that the non-Ottoman Delegates should fulfil certain
conditions as to nationality, medical qualification, or Vice-Consular
rank; and that the decisions of the Board should be binding on the
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Ottoman Government, were accepted almost with unanimity. The
Turkish delegation, however, declined even to discuss, much less to
accept, any of these various proposals.
In regard to our own attitude on this question, we fully shared the
general opinion as to the need for reforms, and we accepted without
reserve the above proposals, save that, in. respect of the last, we

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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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