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'Mesopotamia. Commission' [47r] (96/256)
The record is made up of 1 file (126 folios). It was created in 1914-1916. 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*om Viceroy to Secretary of State for India
DoteJ 15th October 1915.
8488. Reference your telegram of October 9th.
Since eTune health of troops has been bail chief diseases
being heat striolre, malaria, dysentery and on September
End precentaga of siclaiess for whole force was 10.6
of which 8.5 per cent was amongst British troo s.
Preventives adopted are purification of water by
clarifying and boiling or chlorination, prophylactic
'Issue of nuini^e, treatment of mosauito breeding places
supply to al 1 troops British and Native of mosoulto nets
A sanitary committee for whole force has been formed
witr deputy Director l edical Services as president
and Commander Royal Engineers and Officer Commanding
Sanitary Section as members and through this
agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
sanitary organisation under committees have been tatmst
established in Basra, Ahwaz, Amarah and ftasiriyah.
A general malaria survey is being carried out by Officer
Commanding Sanitary Section assisted by officers with
expert experience.
General
British and Indian Hospitals a$r Basra are provided with
electric lights and fans and each bed has a moscuito
net but buildings are not suitable for use of gauze
netting.
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The file contains proofs of official prints required for the statutory commission on the Mesopotamian Expedition [the Mesopotamia Commission, 1916-17]. The papers include transcripts of telegrams and letters (some paraphrased) from the Secretary of State for India, the Viceroy, and the Commander of the Expeditionary Force, 1915-16, General Sir John Eccles Nixon. The file includes papers relating to operations in 1914-15, medical arrangements on the expedition (folios 33-60), press allegations concerning the advance from Kut-el-Amara [Kut Al-Amarah] in 1916 (folios 91-93), and the question of occupying Baghdad (folios 31-32).
The papers are enclosed an a folder inscribed on the front cover: 'Military Department. Previous Papers', and labelled '3'. A further label on the front cover is printed 'Mesopotamia Commission, 28 Abingdon Street, Westminster.'
- Extent and format
- 1 file (126 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 127; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Pagination: there are five additional printed pagination sequences in parallel between ff 64-90, ff 91-93, ff 94-103, ff 109-177, and ff 120-126.
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- IOR/L/MIL/5/777
- Title
- 'Mesopotamia. Commission'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:15v, 19r:127v, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence