IOR/P/1203 Apr 1878 nos 12-13

pp 289-324. The Secretary of State forwards for the information of the Government of India correspondence and reports regarding: the outbreak of plague in Baghdad and Benghazi; the meetings of the Egyptian Board of Health and Special Commission to the [Constantinople] Superior Council of Health; the proposal by the Austro-Hungarian Government to form an International Commission to investigate the plague in Mesopotamia; and general discussion concerning the quarantine arrangements throughout the Persian Gulf and Turkish Arabia, and the suggestion that quarantine be instituted at Bombay, Kurrachee and Aden, should Britain be unwilling to consent that all vessels be subject to quarantine in the Red Sea.

Includes copy letters and reports from:

• Vice-Consul Henry Calvert, British Delegate to the Egyptian Board of Health.
• Sir Louis Mallet, Under Secretary of State for India.
• Count Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust, Austrian Ambassador at London.
• the [Constantinople] Superior Council of Health, and the Special Commission to investigate the plague in Mesopotamia [comprised of de Webenau, Dickson, Pappadouca, Argyropoulo and Bartoletti].
• Telegrams received from Tehran regarding the plague.
• Translated excerpts of reports from Baron von Herbert, Constantinople.
• Duc Decazes, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the French Consultative Committee of Public Health.
• the Egyptian Board of Health.
• Dr E A Dickson, British Delegate to the Board of Health, Constantinople.
• William H Colvill, Civil Surgeon at Baghdad.