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File 2908/1907 Pt 2 ‘Bahrain: quarantine arrangements’ [‎168r] (85/112)

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The record is made up of 1 item (56 folios). It was created in 1908-1911. 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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[This Do cum ent is the Pioperty of His Britannic Majsstys Goverinnent.} ^
EASTERN SANITARY REFORMS.
[March 9.]
CONFIDENTIAL.
Section 1.
[6764]
No. 1 .
Foreign Office to Treasury.
(Confidential.)
Sir, Foreign Office, March 9, 1909.
WITH reference to your letter of the 18th October, 1907, and to previous
correspondence on the subject of Eastern Sanitary Reforms, I am directed by
Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit to you herewith, to he laid before the Lords Com
missioners of His Majesty’s Treasury, copy of a letter from 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. relative
to proposals which have been made by His Majesty’s Resident and Consul-General
at Bushire, for effecting an improvement of the existing quarantine arrangements at
Bahrein.*
It will be observed that the estimated cost of this undertaking is 333/. initial
expenditure and 178/. per annum recurring, and that the Government of India are
prepared to accept these proposals, provided that the cost is divided equally between the
British and Indian Exchequers.
It is, Sir E. Grey considers, of the greatest importance that the sanitary service
in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. should be maintained upon a proper footing, and that the
existing quarantine system should he put into as high a state of efficiency as possible,
in order that any hostile criticism of the British administration of this service may be
disarmed, and that no grounds may he left on which a Power whose interests were
antagonistic to our own could base an accusation that work was not being carried
out in a proper manner.
In this connection, I am to request that you will draw their Lordships’ attention
to the considerations expressed in the letter from this Office of the 16th October last,
which appear to Sir E. Grey to apply in an equal degree to the present case. Bahrein
is not indeed on the same footing vis-a-vis the Tehran Sanitary Council as the Persian
ports on the Gulf, but this fact only renders it of additional importance that at such
a place, which is directly under British influence, the quarantine service should be
irreproachable.
Although, as a result of the friendly relations which at present exist between
this country on the one hand and France and Russia on the other, the British
position in the Gulf is more secure than has been the case in the past, His Majesty s
Government would not be justified in counting on such a state of affairs continuing
indefinitely, and Sir E. Grey considers that no opportunity should be allowed to slip
of consolidating that position in sanitary matters, so that if and when the present
political position in the Gulf is modified to our disadvantage it may be possible to
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X. CtULLa
(Signed) LOUIS MALLET.
* India Offiee, February 17, 1909 (with inclosure).
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The item consists of part two 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. It contains correspondence regarding proposals for improving and financing quarantine arrangements and plague prevention measures at Bahrain.

The main correspondents are as follows: 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 Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Bahrain (Captain Francis Beville Prideaux, later Captain Charles Fraser Mackenzie), 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. . It also contains input from the Treasury, representatives of the Foreign Department of the Government of India, and Shaikh Esa Bin Ali Al Khalifa [Shaikh ‘Īsá bin ‘Alī Āl Khalīfah] – Ruler of Bahrain.

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The papers are arranged in chronological order from the rear (folio 181) to the front of the part (folio 126).

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