Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 30 September 1845. A copy of this letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2122/100102.The item relates to the reporting of Dr John Porter Malcolmson’s, Civil Surgeon at Aden, first successful vaccination at Aden, after receiving virus samples from the Royal Jennerian Institution in London. Certificates from D Sturrock and C Barclay of the [Government of] Madras [Chennai] Medical establishment are included, certifying the success of Malcolmson’s attempt. The item also contains discussions between the Government of Bombay and Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Captain in the Indian Navy and Political Agent at Aden, with regards to Malcolmson's proposals for implementing a wider vaccination programme at Aden. Particular attention is paid to how to convince the numerous ethnic groups in the region to accept vaccinations.The item also contains letters forwarded to the Government of Bombay from Surgeon James Burnes, Secretary to the Medical Board, regarding Malcolmson's reports that there are no cases of small pox currently being treated at Aden.The correspondents are: Burnes; Malcolmson; Haines; and the Government of Bombay.The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘P.C. [Previous Communication] 5061, Draft 29/46, Coll[ection]: 32, Vol: 2’, ‘Collection No. 3 of No. 80’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 939, and terminates at f 952, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the item also contains an original pagination sequence.
Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, two Political Letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 19 July and 30 September 1845. Some of the enclosures mentioned in the second letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2122/100103.The item relates to requests to the Court of Directors made by Dr John Porter Malcolmson, Civil Surgeon at Aden. Malcolmson asks for permission to travel to Lahedge (also rendered as Lahidge [Lahij]) and into the interior of Arabia [Arabian Peninsula] in order to introduce vaccination into the general region and also teach ‘the Arabs’ how to cultivate European vegetables. The item contains the replies to Malcolmson's requests from: the Court of Directors; the Government of Bombay; and Malcolmson’s superior, Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Captain in the Indian Navy and Political Agent at Aden. The item also includes a letter to Malcolmson from Charles Chantry, Secretary of the Royal Jennerian and London Vaccine Institution, dated 25 April 1845.The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘P.C. [Previous Communication] 5061, Draft 29/46, Coll[ection]: 32, Vol: 1’, ‘Collection No. 2 of No. 80’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 928, and terminates at f 938, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the item also contains an original pagination sequence.
Abstract: The file contains correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Medical Store Depot at Bombay, Gray Mackenzie & Co Limited, and the Victoria Memorial Hospital, concerning the supply of medicines, vaccines, surgical equipment, and stores for the Hospital.The file also includes correspondence with various British suppliers, with leaflets and invoices, and correspondence with Indian National Railway regarding their shipping.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 286; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-124; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
Abstract: The file contains correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Medical Store Depot, the Chief Quarantine Medical Officer, the Office of the Controller of Military accounts at Poona, and the Victoria Memorial Hospital, concerning the furnishing of medicines, equipment and stores for the Victoria Memorial Hospital.The file includes correspondence with Bliss & Co, chemists in Karachi, regarding the supply of vaccines.The file also contains administrative arrangements for people in Bahrain to be inoculated with the TAB vaccine (combined vaccine used to produce immunity against the diseases typhoid, paratyphoid A, and paratyphoid B). The lists of people to be vaccinated include dependents (and their relatives) of the Political Agency, The Mesopotamia Persia Corporation Limited, The Eastern Bank Limited, the Government of Bahrain, and the Adviserate to the Government of Bahrain.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 240; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Two additional mixed foliation/pagination sequences are also present; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
Abstract: The file contains circulars, notices, telegrams, cyphers and correspondence regarding outbreaks of infectious diseases, precautions against them, and quarantine restrictions imposed on passengers travelling to and from various places in the Persian Gulf.The principal correspondents are the Medical Officer at the Victoria Memorial Hospital, the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, the Manamah Municipality, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Political Agent at Kuwait, the Political Agent at Muscat, and the Political Agent at Bahrain.The file contains documents in Arabic with English translation: notices and proclamations of quarantine from the Government of Bahrain, and notes on the creation of an anti-malaria Advisory Committee in Bahrain.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 182; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 5-178; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
Abstract: The file contains telegrams, cyphers, and correspondence regarding measures against outbreaks of cholera in the Trucial Coast. The correspondence concerns updates on cases of cholera in Sharjah and Dubai, inoculations and quarantine regulations, and restrictions on travel to the Persian Gulf area for passengers who had not been inoculated.The file also contains medical advice and delivery of cholera vaccines from the Quarantine Medical Officer at the Victoria Memorial Hospital in Bahrain to the Residency Agent of Sharjah.The principal correspondents are the Quarantine Medical Officer at the Victoria Memorial Hospital in Bahrain, the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited, the Commonwealth Relations Office in London, the Residency Agent at Sharjah, the Political Agency at Kuwait, the British Ambassador at Baghdad, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and the Political Agent at Bahrain.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 114; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file contains correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Political Agent at Bahrain. The correspondence regards the supply of vaccines from the Haffkine Institute, in Bombay, for the Victoria Memorial Hospital at Bahrain.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 11; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-8; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
Abstract: The file contains miscellaneous correspondence about hospitals in Bahrain: vaccinations, conditions of hospitals and cost of medical treatments. There is also a contact report of venereal diseases for a Bahraini prostitute, from the Medical Department of the US Navy.The correspondents include the Port Directorate in Basra; the Office of the Accountant General, Central Revenues at New Delhi; the American Consulate in Dhahran; the Quarantine Medical Officer at the Victoria Memorial Hospital in Bahrain; the Medical Department of the Government of Bahrain; the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; and the Political Agent at Bahrain.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 59; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-10; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
Abstract: 1. ‘Notes’, anonymous and undated (probably written by Harford Jones, Resident in Baghdad), concerning the activities of the French physician Outry and his suspected influence over the Pashaw [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad]. Another copy of this document can be found in IOR/L/PS/9/76/188.2. An extract of a letter from Harford Jones to Peter Tooke, Agent of the East India Company in Constantinople [Istanbul], dated 23 November 1801. The letter concerns attempts to transport cowpox samples to India for purposes of inoculation against smallpox. Jones asks Tooke to arrange for cowpox matter to be sent from Constantinople to Bagdad. Another copy of this extract is catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/76/194.Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)
Abstract: An extract of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Peter Tooke, Agent of the East India Company in Constantinople [Istanbul], dated 23 November 1801.The letter concerns attempts to transport cowpox samples to India for purposes of inoculation against smallpox. Jones asks Tooke to arrange for cowpox matter to be sent from Constantinople to Bagdad.Another copy of this extract can be found in IOR/L/PS/9/76/195.Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to James Short, Surgeon at the Bagdad Residency, dated 31 March 1802.The letter forwards a sample of vaccine matter received from a Doctor de Carro in Vienna (see IOR/L/PS/9/76/224) for the purposes of experimentation, in the hope that the vaccine will be successfully reproduced and be conveyed to India. Jones asks Doctor Short to report the result of his experiment to Doctor de Carro.Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], sent from Bagdad and dated 18 April 1802.The letter reports a successful experiment by Doctor James Short, Surgeon at the Bagdad Residency, to reproduce a vaccine in Bagdad against smallpox with matter received from a Doctor de Carro in Vienna (see IOR/L/PS/9/76/194, 224, and 231) and discusses means of relaying vaccine matter to Bussora and India.Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)