IOR/L/PS/12/3481

Correspondence and papers relating to the Persian Government’s regulation of foreign medical practitioners working in Persia [Iran]. The file contains: correspondence sent by HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Tehran to the Foreign Office in London, reporting on the new laws and regulations; correspondence between HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Tehran, and Persian Government officials over the implementation of the regulations; and circulars sent by HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to British consular officers in Persia, with instructions for the implementation of the new regulations.

The correspondence covers: the conditions under which foreign practitioners could work in Persia; institutions whose medical diplomas the Persian Government recognised (an official list of international medical schools and faculties can be found at folios 121-122); the rights of foreign doctors to use the title Doctor; a request made by the British Government to the Iranian Government that Lieutenant-Colonel John Clark Pyper, Medical Officer and ex-officio Vice-Consul at Zabul, be permitted to practice medicine.

The file also includes a printed booklet entitled ‘Statements comparing the Expenditure incurred by the Government of India on Diplomatic and Consular Services in Persia in the year 1932-1933 with that in the previous year’, published by the Government of India Press in 1934 (ff 80-94).

The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.