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the Indian Government. In September 1004
Major Cox, after examining the old records Major Cox to
regarding the sanitary control in the Persian Government of
r> ii* 11 India,
Gulf, reported that "since 1801, and probably yopteinbor 5, 1904
before, it lias been entirely in our bauds; but our
control seems to have come into existence auto­
matically, and I can trace no original arrange­
ments with the Persian Government." The
appearance of plague at Bombay in the autumn
of 1800 rendered it imperative to adopt quaran­
tine precautions in the Gulf. The resources of Persia.. Gulf
the Persian Government were unequal to the AdudniStion
inauguration of adequate measures, and the task Ik|wri, lS'JC-97
was, with the consent and at the desire of the
Persian Government, undertaken by the British
Ilcsideuey at Bushirc. After somo difficulty,
quarantine was placed on satisfactory and efficient
footing at Bunder Abbas, Lingab, and Mobam-
mcrali, for which the services of assistant
surgeons were lent by the Government of India,
ns well as at Bushirc.
In August 1903 the Government of India Viceroy’s
reported that three assistant surgeons were cm- August 12 and 20,
ployed exclusively on quarantine duties at 1903.
Mobammerab, llundcr Abbas, and Lingab, while
at Bushiro and Jask the duty was done by the
nssistaut'surgcons attached to the Residency and
the telegraph station respectively. The cost of
the quarantine establishment at the first three
ports, estimated at 1,4&0 rupees a-raonth (1,184/.
per annum) was home by the Persian Govern­
ment, while a charge of about 310 rupees a-montii
(272/. per annum) fell upon Indian revenues in
respect of the quarantine duties discharged by
the doctors at Jask and Bushirc. The assistant Colonel Kimball
, . , .. .. , , to Government
surgeons were placed under the immediate orders Qf
of the Residency Surgeon at Bushire, who was in February 3,1904.
the executive charge of the quarantine arrange­
ments. Financially, control was vested in the
Customs Administration, to whom all fees were
made over by the quarantine officials.
Attempts have from timo to time been made to
undermine the position of the British Quarantine
Administration. On the 6th August, 1903, Sir A. Ilanliugn
Sir A. Hardinge telegraphed that the Russians Um'
were pressing the Persian Government to take August (J, 1903.
the Gulf quarantine arrangements out of the
hands of the British doctors and to place them
under the Belgian Customs Department. Six
days later the Government of India telegraphed Viceroy1., tdvgnm
that they bad "positive proof" that the Persian "st