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10 PERSIAN GULP ADMINISTRATION REPORT

APPENDIX.
.MEMORANDUM BY MAJOR J. MoPHERSON, RESIDENCY
SURGEON AND CHIEF QUARANTINE MEDICAL OFFICER
IN THE PERSIAN GULF, ON THE WORK OF (1) THE RESI­
DENCY DISPENSARY, (2) QUARANTINE ADMINISTRATION
IN THB GULF.

During the year the number of patients treated at the Hospital was
14,677. Of these 14,537 were out­
Hospital. patients and 140 in-door cases.

The operations performed numbered 645,
The health of Gulf Ports has been
Sanitary Operation!. good except in the case of Bahrain,
where there was an outbreak of plague.
The outbreak originated in December of tho previous year, and was con­
tinued until June. It affected the adjoining .Islands as well as Bahrain
itself.
Mohammerah had three cases of plague in the first week of ApriL
At Bushire and at Bandar Abba9 cases of plague were taken off ships and
isolated in quarantine. At Bushire there wer e four cases, one of which was
brought from Bahrain by the mail of 2nd February; while the others were
taken off the “ Sirdar” on 17th April, while that vessel was on her voyage from
Bombay;
At Bandar Abbas five cases in ail were taken eff ships; one cu tho 14th
March, from the " Barpeta ” coming from Bahrain and tho others from the
“ Sirdar”, on the 12th and 13th April. As the “Sirdar” was thoroughly
infected she was sent to Mohammerah on tho 17th April for disinfection and
deratisation by the Clayton Barge.
The Quarantine Station at Bushire underwent thorough repair during the
year.
The following table gives the details of the Quarantine work done at five
ports:—

Number Nnmbor of crow Number of
Station. of impeded on paaeongen <m
▼osmIs. hoard. board.
A
Bxulure • 259 24,894 12,240 2,871

Mohammenh . 263 24,151 9,215 5,124
Bandar Abba*. 117 12,101 6,901 1,200
Liugah . . 80. 8,861 4,510 826
Juk 58 6,190 3,214 427

J. McPHER80N, Majob, I.M.S.,
fieMenog Surgeon*.