ملف ٢٩٠٨/١٩٠٧ الجزء ٣ "الخليج الفارسي: الحجر الصحي؛ شكوى ألمانية" [و‎‎١‎١‎٠] (٢٥٠/٢١٩)

ENCLOSURES.
Enclosure No. 1 .
Eoreign Office to India Office.
The Under Secretary of State for Eoreign Affairs presents his com
pliments to the Under Secretary of State for India, and is directed by
the Secretary of State for Eoreign Affairs to transmit to him, to he laid
before the Secretary of State for India, the accompanying copy of a
Memorandum by Ur. Clemow, which has been received from the British
delegates at the Paris Sanitary Conference, on Sanitary Measures in the
Persian Gulf.
Lord Lansdowne would be glad to be favoured at an early oppor
tunity with any observations which the Secretary of State for India
may have to offer on the subject.
A copy of the Uespatch covering this Memorandum will be sent to
the India Office shortly.
Eoreign Office,
31st October 1903.
Annex.
Memorandum on Sanitary Measures in the Persian Gulf
since 1891.
The question of the sanitary defence of the Persian Gulf has been the
subject of repeated discussions in the Constantinople Board of Health,
and was formally dealt with by representatives of the Powers in the
International Sanitary Conferences of 1894 and 1897.
A .—Paris Sanitary Conference, 1894.
The Sanitary Conference of 1894 (Paris) dealt with cholera only,
and appointed three Commissions, namely:—( 1 ) Red Sea and
Pilgrimage; ( 2 ) Persian Gulf ; and (3) Ways and Means.
The Persian Gulf Commission held three sittings, and in its Report
to the Conference proposed the establishment of a large number of
sanitary stations in and near the Gulf, in addition to drawing up a set
of regulations applicable to arrivals in the Gulf ports.
The sanitary stations proposed were as follows :—
1. At Eao, or in its neighbourhood, a large lazaret, on the mainland,
with complete staff, having under its direction the sanitary posts'
in the Gulf named below.
2 . On one of the islands, Salable* or Ylanie, opposite Basra, a small
* The existing lazaret at Basra is lazaret, to supervise persons who
on the island of Salahie. ma y have escaped the visit at
Eao.
3. Sanitary post at Basra.
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Koweit.
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Menama in Bahrein Island.
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Bender Abbas.
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Bu shire.
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Mohamera.
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Muscat.
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Gwadur.