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CHAPTER VIII.

NOTES ON THE WORKING 0? QUARANTINE ON THE ARAB COAST OP THE
* PERSIAN GULP FOR THE YEAR 1942.

The Residency Surgeon r.ade a tour of Inspection of the
Hospitals and Quarantine stations of trie Arab Coast during the

early months of the year. Bahrain, Dubai, Sharjah, Muscat and
Kuwait were visited.
The quarantine and isolation of infectious and contarious
cases in Dubai and Sharjah are Carried out by the Shaikhs of

those places under advice from the Medical Officer, Crucial
Coast. Tha systen adopted is satisfactory and thorourh.
• The law to ensure the notification of infectious cases
passed in Bahrain Is a step in the right direction and very

effective isolation is now Imposed during epidemics.
The epidemic .of snail pox that occurred at the end of i.941
continued during the early months of ?242.
DIH3AI Endemic small-pox until June 19**2. Another small . '
outbreak occurred in July 1242.
I
iJJ./AIT. No epidemics reported durinr 1242.
MUSCAT. Mo epidemics reported during 1942.
;
PERSONNEL.
Residency Burgeon, Bnshire and Chief
Quarantine Medical Officer,
Arab Coast, Ma.i 'r R. Holmes, “BE. IMJ
Quarantine ! edical Officey,Kuwait. ; ; o r A. L. r. r e e nv:a y,.3...
IMD-
Quarantine Medical Officer, Bahrain. 1st.Cl-'ss Assistant
Burgeon M.L.A.Jtsele,IMD

Quarantine Medical Officer, Muscat. 1st Class Assistant
Surgeon C.E.Hynes, IMD.