ملف ٣١٢٢\ ١٩٢١ الجزء ١ "بلاد فارس: ترتيبات الحجر الصحي" [و‎‎٢‎٢‎٤] (١١٧٤/٤٤٣)

In any further communication
on this subject, please quote
no. S 1049/306/34
''and address
not to any person by name,
but to—
! “The Under-Secretary of State,’’
Foreign Office,
London, S.W.l.
m ’B.
Sir,
L_
With reference to Sir E. Clive's despatch Eo.61
of the ^7th January, a copy of which was sent to you on
the 18 th February, and previous correspondence relative to
the quarantine service in the Persian Gulf, I am directed
by Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain to transmit to you, for
the observations of the Earl of Birkenhead, a copy of a
telegram from Sir E. Clive, showing that the Persian
Government wish to reduce the number of British medical
officers employed in this service as from the 20th March
next*
2. If the Persian Government and the Persian
Parliament are unwilling any longer to sanction the
employment of all the British doctors at present employed
in the Persian Gulf ports, it would be difficult for His
Majesty's Government to insist on their doing so, particular
ly in those posts at which the salaries of the officers
nave hitherto been paid by the Persian Government. In
these circumstauces I am to enquire whether Lord Birkenhead
wishes to offer any observations on the possible reduction
the number of British doctors at present employed, and
on the question in which posts it is most important, from
point of view of British and Indian interests, to
retain British medical officers.
i6r Secretary 0 f State,
^dia Offi ce#