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FOR THE YEAR M*. 13
Tho Quarantine System in the Persian Gulf has worked smoothly during
Qwrmntioc. the year. There have been the following
changes in personnel during the period.
Major J. MoPherson relieved Major Hunt in Bushire on 20th October
1914.
Assistant-Surgeon Borlio „ Assistant Surgeon Smith at Bandar Abbas
on 1st August 1914.
Assistant-Surgeon Asquith „ Assistant Surgeon Berlie at Jask on 28th
July 1914.
The Clayton disinfecting apparatus and barge, located at Mohammerah,
has been overhauled during the year and is in good order.
Plague appeared at Behai on the Arab Coast early in January, and up to
date Bebai has not been declared free of the disease. At Bahrain a small
outbreak of plague was reported as having appeared on 22nd Becember.
There has been no cholera in any of the Gulf Ports during the year.
A table is appended which shows the work of the Quarantine Stations in
the Persian Gulf for the year 1914:—

Numbor ifuiLBBB or PA88BNORB8 IKIFECTID.
Station. of Number of crew.
steamers. On board. For report.
Bushire 817 25,396 29,112 5,705
Mohammerah • 262 20,864 23,299 3,312
Lingah 120 10,705 12,528 2,054
Bandar Abbas 148 12,922 13,677 3,727

Jask 68 6,411 5,454 446
Kuwait 70 7,005 9,277 2,039

Bahrain 132 15,163 18,689 9,944

j. McPherson, Major,
Residency Surgeon in the Persian Gulf
Bushier, )

The 13th January 1916.

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