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and lent additional urgency to the question of
improving the sanitary defence of the Gulf.
Sir 0. Spring-Rico With a despatch dated the 10th May, 1907,
to Sir E. Groy,
May 19, 1907. Sir C. Spring-Rico transmitted a Memorandum by
Dr. Schneider, President of the Tehran Sanitary
Council, on the measures lie recommended for
the improvement of the quarantine service.
Those measures included the appointment of
commissioned officers of the medical service to
all five ports, and the provision of a stove and
Clayton apparatus (lor destroying ruts, &o.), as
Sir C. Spring-Rico well as a reserve stove, at Bushire. Sir C. Spring-
to Sir E. Grey,
May 30, 1907. Rice added, in a telegram dated the 30th May,
that the Sanitary Council, •while strongly
approving the measures proposed, did not possess
the necessary personnel, appliances, or funds
to carry out the scheme, and would he very
grateful for the assistance of the Government of
India. Sir C. Spring-15 ice expressed himself
strongly in favour of the proposed improvements
being undertaken by the British Government,
and in this view the Foreign Ofiicc concurred,
the following statement of policy being made in
Mr. Mallet’s letter of the 21st June, 1907 :—
Foroign Office to “During the eleven years in which the control
India Office,
Juno 21, 1907. of quarantine arrangements in the Gulf has been
in British hands, the Government of India have
spent large sums on the service, which would he
entirely lost if any ehango in the control were
now to he made; and Sir E. Grey entirely agrees
with His Majesty’s Minister in considering it of
great importance, both politically and commer­
cially, to endeavour to maintain the status quo by
improving the efficiency of the medical service.”

SirC. Spring-Rico In July 1907 the Sanitary Council reported in
to Sir E. Grey,
July 12, 1907. favour of an extended scheme of improvement
including sanitary stations at Bunder Abbas’
Bushire, Mobammerab, Jask, and Lingab, with a
mobile service under a European doctor. The
Russian representative on the Council proposed
that tho sauitary service should be in “ strict
collaboration with the Customs,” who should use
the live small steamers they had receutly ac­
quired; he also desired the appointment of tho
French doctor of the Russian Consulate at
Bushire os Iuspcctor-Goneral. Representations
wore made to the Russian Government, on
tho 21th July, in which it was pointed out
that LLis Majesty’s Government considered “ tho
present quarantine arrangements as one of their
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