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the Persian Gulf, to ascertain and report whether
the Island of 11 enjoin would or would nol bo
more suitable as a site for a “ sentinel’' station
near the entrauco of the Gulf than the Island of
Ormuz, lie reported in September 1905. Stated
briefly, his recommendations, which went beyond
the terms of his reference and dealt with the
whole question of the sanitary dofcnce of the
Gulf, were ns follows :—
1. That lazarets should be established nt
Hcnjam and Pao, to bo controlled respectively
by the Persian Government nnd by the Constan­
tinople Hoard of Health ; and
2. That sanitary stations for purposes of
* observation ” should bo oreeted at Bunder
Abbas, Lingah, Bushire, and Mohammerah,
under the control of the Persian Government,
and at Bussorah, Kowcit, Bahrein, Debai, nnd
Muscat, under the control of the Constantinople
Board of Health.

Hr. Faivre’s Report did not reach His Majesty’s Sir F. Bertie to
Government until December 1900. In tho mean- Decembor 3,1906.
while it had been decided in November 1905 that
Dr. Theodore Thomson, of the Local Government
Board, should visit the Persian Gulf on behalf of
His Majesty’s Government, and report “ on tho Mr. Brodrick to
sanitary requirements of those regious in respeet, India,
not only of Persia, but also of Europe, as well as Septembers, 1905
on the question of the need of a sanitary station
and tho suitability of Ormuz, HeDjam, or other
sitrs for tho purpose.” The Government of
India, who were consulted ns to the proposal,
agreed that it might be advautageous at any
future discussions for the British Government to
have at its disposal expert information indepen­
dent of that collected by Dr. Paivre, but expressed
tho earnest hope that “ British opposition to Viraroj’8
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toUtgroui of
establishment of sanitary station will be uncorn- November 6,1905.
promisingly maintained.” It may here bo noted
that the objections of the British Government to
the establishment of an international sanitary
station in the Persian Gulf, &9 classified by the
Porcign Office in April 1900, are (1) political,
in so far as the station would introduce a certain
amount of international control in a sphere of
British influence; (2) commercial, as placing
within the reach of other Powers a rendy means
of hampering and restricting tho shipping trade
with Bombay and Kurracliec, against which a