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Three thatched hut3 were erected outside the Toll Gate, one
for persons from an infected area, one for contacts, one to be used

as a hospital* Water,servants, guards, disposal of excreta were
arranged, but fortunately not used or required*
Anti cholera vaccine ran out and supplies could not be obtained
from either India or the United Kingdom* Later the Chief Quarantine

Medical Officer Eahrain sent supplies to Muscat.
There were no cases of snail pox in Muttrah or Muscat although
alarmist rumours were current that small pox had broken out in Mutt rah.

Neither the Quarantine Medical Officer nor Dr* Thoms of the American
Medical Mission hospital saw any such cases.
The supply of vaccine lymph from India is causing anxiety.
The Assistant Director of Public Health, ’Jest Punjab, states that

further supply of vaccine lynph every week has been stopped till
normal arrangements for rail are restored. Muscat is not on any air
route, shipping is irregular, and if India, the only country that

can possibly supply Muscat with fairly fresh lymph no*./ closes down on
such supplies the situation is extremely dangerous.

3. POLITICAL SITUATION

(a) Tribal
Very early in the year the Imam’s health was in a precarious
condition and it was feared tint he would die. However in liarch Kis

Highness the Sultan received information from the interior that the
Imam had recovered sufficiently to dispel fears of his death in the
near future. At the time of the loan’s illness some pressure was
brought to bear on him regarding the nomination of a successor, but

apparently he refused to do so. The general consensus of opinion at
that time was that in the event of the Imam's death without his nominating

a successor, serious disturbances would result in the interior in a
general bid for the Iraamate*
/ Sheikh