IOR/L/PS/10/124/2

The item consists of part three of the subject file 2908/1907 Persian Gulf: Quarantine. This part broadly covers two topics: the proceedings of the International Sanitary Conference at Paris (1903) and complaints made by German consular staff at Bushire against the conduct of Captain Thomas Beauchamp Williams whilst undertaking his duties as Chief Quarantine Officer in the Persian Gulf.

Correspondence outlining the details of three quarantine incidents has been included:

• a breach of quarantine regulations by an unnamed Russian Munshi aboard the SS Mandura on 6 March 1907: see folios 41-42
• the detention of Herr Krumpeter of Messrs Wonckhaus and Company in connection with a visit by the SS Savoia to Bushire between 8-9 July 1907: see folios 35-40
• the infringement of quarantine rules by Herr Krumpeter during a visit to Bushire by the SS Galicia on 10 June 1907

Complaints against Captain Williams over his conduct during the latter two incidents were lodged by Count Quadt, German Minister at Tehran, at the Tehran Sanitary Council: see folios 4-6 for related papers. A copy – in French – of a report of the proceedings of the fifty-third session of the Tehran Sanitary Council can be found on folios 11-14.

A copy – in French with English translation – of the International Sanitary Convention, signed at Paris 3 December 1903, can be found on folios 43-108. For supplementary correspondence outlining the proceedings of the British delegation at the Conference, see folios 109-125.

The main correspondents are as follows: HM Minister at Tehran (Sir Cecil Arthur Spring Rice), HM Chargé d'affaires at Tehran (Charles Murray Marling), the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Major Percy Zachariah Cox), the Chief Quarantine Officer in the Persian Gulf, the German Consul at Bushire (Dr Franz Listermann), officials of the Foreign Office, and officials of the India Office.

No papers have been filed for the years 1905-1906.