"ملف ٤/٢ II‏. الطيران. أ. الطيران المدني (١) الإدارة الصحية على الجانب العربي من الخليج" [و‎‎٣‎٩] (١٢٢/٧٧)

OtTil Air h&rmmmtB Hie Majesty's tiovGrewmt
and the two x ulars concern m . 'Dio Asaiatant burgeon
at Muacatf owing to the Gwacur aerodrome being on the
opposite coast, is unable to do any work in connection
with the Air Gerrices*
4* With regf^rd to the smallpox epidemic out of which
the present correspondence has arisen, the course of
events was as follows*
on the 30th December 1935 in a telegram to me in
connection with a proposed flight of aircraft along the
TrneiaJL Coast, the Air officer Commanding, Bagdad,
mentioned that the flight might hawe to avoid Sharjah
owing to smallpox* on the same day 1 received a tele*
gram from the Political Agent, Bahrain, that smallpox
had broken out on the rucial Coast and telegraphed to
the Political Agent, Bahrain, that the Kesidency Agent,
Bh&rjah, with whom he is in wireless touch, should
arrange with the Shaikh of Sharjah and Imperial Airways
Station Superintendent to isolate the Imperial Airways
Hast House from the town* *n the 31st December the
Air Officer Commanding telegraphed to me that he was
sending a Medical officer by imperial Airways* plane of
that date to vaccinate all personnel of the Hast house*
this telegram was repeated to the iolitloal Agent,
Bahrain, and the senior Naval Officer, iersiaja Gulf,
so all who were locally concerned knew what was happen
ing* on the 4th January, having obtained from the
heoidency Agent through the Political Agent, Bahrain,
the number of cases and deaths, 2 sent the following
tolegram addressed t Government of India, repeated
Minister, Tehran, Consul Basra for information of iort
Health* ••