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1. ‘Aden – Affairs’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, British Political Agent at Aden; the Medical Board of Bombay; John Porter Malcolmson, Civil Surgeon at Aden. It is the fourth in a series of five items concerning Aden (the others are IOR/F/4/2100/98226, 98227, 98228, and 98230).The item concerns the outbreaks of smallpox at Aden and the failure of the vaccination programme, and the prevalence of syphilis in town. Haines proposes building a civil hospital for the town.The item includes a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 683, P.C. [Previous Communication] 4878, [Season 18]45’, ‘Vol: 4’, ‘Collection No 7 of No 26’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 247 and terminates at f 256, 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.
2. ‘Aden’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; the Government of India; Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, British Political Agent at Aden; the Medical Board of Bombay; John Porter Malcolmson, Civil Surgeon at Aden; Edward Eden Elliott, Civil Auditor at Bombay. It is the fifth in a series of five items concerning Aden (the others are IOR/F/4/2100/98226, 98227, 98228, and 98229).The item concerns:The question of town planning at AdenOccurrences of smallpox in Aden, and the failure of the vaccination programmes to control itAn increase in Haines’s allowance to enable him to entertain officials arriving on steamers.The item includes a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 683, P.C. [Previous Communication] 4878, [Season 18]45’, ‘Vol: 5’, ‘Collection No 7 of No 39’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 257 and terminates at f 270, 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.
3. 'File 2/1 Medical. Epidemics - cholera - smallpox etc: returns and correspondence'
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- Abstract: The file contains a letter from Gilbert E Brooke, Director of the League of Nations, Health Section, Eastern Bureau, in Singapore, requesting information on epidemics like cholera and smallpox in the area defined as 'Eastern Arena', including the Persian Gulf. The file also contains subsequent correspondence from the Political Agent at Bahrain and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, reporting episodes of smallpox in Bahrain.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the 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 also present in parallel between ff 4-10; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
4. 'File 2/14 II Epidemics (in places other than Bahrain) Cholera, Smallpox etc'
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence and telegrams between the Residency Agent at Sharjah, the Political Agent at Muscat, the Political Agent in the Trucial Coast, the British Ambassador at Baghdad, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and the Political Agent at Bahrain regarding outbreaks of smallpox and other diseases in the Persian Gulf. The file contains requests for supply of vaccines, vaccinations, and quarantine measures. The file also contains documents and weekly statistics regarding a smallpox epidemic in 1943 in Dubai.The file contains documents in Arabic with English translation, quarantine notices from the Government of 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 179; 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 2-35 and between ff 37-141; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
5. 'File 2/14 Outbreaks of smallpox, cholera and other diseases on the Trucial Coast'
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence and telegrams between the Political Agent at Bahrain; K S Husain bin Hamad, in charge of the Agency at Sharjah; the Political Agent in the Trucial Coast; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Yusuf bin Ahmed Kanoo; regarding outbreaks of smallpox and other diseases on the Trucial Coast.The file mostly contains documents regarding a smallpox epidemic in the Trucial Coast: weekly statistics and telegrams showing deaths by smallpox in 1936, in English and Arabic.The file also contains requests for supply of vaccines, vaccinations, quarantine measures, requests for the intervention for Dr Ralph Holmes, Medical Officer at the Victoria Memorial Hospital, and reports from Dr Holmes' work in Sharjah.There is correspondence in Arabic with English translation, with the Residency Agent at Sharjah and with the ruler of Ras-al-Khaimah, Shaikh Sultan bin Salim Al Qasimi.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 404; 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 foliation sequences are present in parallel between ff 3-364 and between ff 368-383; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
6. ‘File 2/4 II. AVIATION. A. CIVIL AVIATION (1) Sanitary Administration on the Arab side of the Gulf’
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence in the form of letters and notifications related to the outbreak of smallpox at Sharjah. Correspondents in the file discuss the necessity of the application of the International Sanitary Convention and of quarantine restrictions in the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Coast.The correspondence also discusses the issue of sending a medical officer by airplane from Baghdad to Sharjah; the sanitary administration at aerodromes on the Arabian Coast of the Persian Gulf; and measurements that are taken at Bahrain; Kuwait and Muscat.The main correspondents in the file are the Political Residency, Bushire; the Office International d'Hygiène Publique (International Office of Public Hygiene); India Office; the Ministry of Health, and the Air Ministry.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 61; 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 3-60; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
7. Pol Ext 8501/49 'Smallpox cases among pilgrims in Saudi Arabia'
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- Abstract: This file contains British Government correspondence regarding unconfirmed information, provided by the Saudi Arabian Quarantine Administration, of an outbreak of smallpox in local hospitals, following the end of pilgrimage [Hajj].The correspondents are the Commonwealth Relations Office and British Consul at Jeddah.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 6, these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
8. Aden Affairs
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- Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 105 of 1848, dated 2 December 1848. The enclosures are numbered 3-5 and are dated November 1848.The enclosures consist of: a letter from the Political Agent at Aden (Stafford Bettesworth Haines) to the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay (Arthur Malet), reporting that all the Arab tribes in the immediate vicinity of Aden were at peace with each other, the high rate of smallpox infection, and the weather in Aden; Malet's response to Haines; and a letter from Malet forwarding Haines's letter to the Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-General.Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatches, numbered 1-5, on folio 401. These numbers are repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of each enclosure.
9. Aden Affairs
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- Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 102 of 1847, dated 15 December 1847. The enclosures are numbered 3-9 and are dated 29 November to 15 December 1847.Enclosure Nos. 3-4 consist of two letters from the Political Agent at Aden, Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Arthur Malet, reporting news from Aden, including:The neighbourhood of Aden remaining ‘tranquil’, due to Sultan Hamed ibn Abdulla Foutheli [Aḥmad bin Abdullāh al-Faḍlī] declining to ratify an agreement made between his brother and Hydra ibn Maidee [Shaikh Ḥaydarah bin Mahdī] of Bir Ahmed [Bi’r Aḥmad] for assistance in plundering the Abdali kafilas [caravans] entering AdenSheil writing to Hydra ibn Maidee and cautioning him against any such ‘outrage and breach of faith’ which would interfere with the commerce of AdenNo new cases of smallpox occurring since Haines’s last letterThe cool weather during the month of NovemberThe death Sultan M Houssain Fudthel [Muḥsin bin Faḍl al-'Abdalī] on 29 November.Enclosure No. 4 includes enclosed copies of translated letters from Ahmed M’Houssain Fudthel [Aḥmad bin Muḥsin al-‘Abdalī] and his brothers, and from their father Sultan M’Houssain Fudthel to Haines, regarding the Sultan delegating to his sons responsibility for securing the roads, and the sons requesting the restoration of the stipend formerly paid to their father. This enclosure also includes a letter in reply from Haines to Sultan Ahmed Fudthel (following the death of his father), expressing his pleasure at the brothers commencing to secure the roads, stating that he has written to the Government of Bombay regarding the stipend, and offering his condolences on the death of Sultan M’Houssain Fudthel.Enclosures 5-6 consist of a minute of the Government of Bombay and a letter from Malet to Haines, regarding the approval of the Government of Bombay of Haines’s actions following the death of the late Sultan of Lahedge, requesting Haines to express the regret of Government to the family of the deceased, and informing Haines that the question of the restoration of the pension of the Sultan of Lahedge has been referred to the Governor-General, but he has not yet replied.Enclosure No. 7 is a letter from Malet to the Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-General, Henry Miers Elliot, forwarding copies of the correspondence with Haines relating to the death of the Sultan of Lahedge.Numbers 8-9, listed in the abstract of contents as copies of the Bombay Overland Timesand the Bombay Overland Telegraph and Courier, dated 15 December 1847, are not included in this item (a note dated 30 October 1906 states that they are missing).Physical description: 1 item (13 folios)
10. Aden Affairs
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- Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 99 of 1847, dated 15 November 1847. The enclosures, numbered 3-31, consist of correspondence, and minutes of the Government of Bombay. Enclosure numbers 3-29 are dated 13 May to 13 November 1847.The enclosures concern matters including:The Political Agent at Aden, Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, reporting that the Arab tribes in the immediate neighbourhood of Aden are in a ‘tranquil’ stateHaines receiving an application from the Sultan of Lahedge [Lahej or Lahij], Sultan M’Houssain Fudthel [Muḥsin bin Faḍl al-‘Abdalī], for the restoration of his stipendAn outbreak of smallpox cases amongst the Somali (also spelled Soomallee in this item) community at Aden, and measures taken by the Political Agent at Aden to prevent it spreadingThe departure of the Assistant Political Agent at Aden, Lieutenant Charles John Cruttenden, to Berbera (also spelled Burberra in this item) on political duty, with Haines issuing him the following instructions: to assist in settling the feud between the Somali tribes, helping to ensure that the annual fair at Berbera is held, which is greatly beneficial to Indian and Aden trade; to make enquiries into the state of the country inland, and especially to ascertain whether a regular supply of meat to Aden over the next few years can be counted on; and to provide information on the proceedings of Ismail Effendi [Ismā‘īl Ḥaqqī Pāshā], the Governor of Mussowah [Massawa], who is reported to have laid claim in the name of Mahomet Ali Pasha [Muḥammad ‘Alī Pāshā al-Mas‘ūd bin Āghā] to the sea ports of Tajoura [Tadjoura], Zeyla [Zeila or Saylac] and BerberaThe circumstances surrounding the dismissal of Ibrahim Pittajee [Ibrāhīm Pitājī, also spelled Ibrahim Pettajee, and in various other ways in this item] from his employment as Town Surveyor at Aden by the Executive Engineer at Aden, Captain James KilnerLieutenant Cruttenden’s request for an increase to his pay and allowances as Assistant Political Agent at Aden.The correspondence is mainly between the following: the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Arthur Malet; the Political Agent at Aden; the Assistant Political Agent at Aden; the Executive Engineer at Aden; Ibrahim Pittajee; Brigadier W Spiller, Commanding at Aden; the Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-General; the Bombay Medical Board; and the Bombay Military Board.Enclosure Nos. 30-31, listed in the abstract of contents as copies of the Bombay Times Overland Summaryand the Bombay Overland Telegraph and Courier, dated 15 November 1847, are not included in this item (they are recorded as missing in a note dated 30 November 1906).Physical description: 1 item (53 folios)
11. Aden Affairs
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- Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 101 of 1847, dated 1 December 1847. The enclosures listed in the abstract of contents are numbered 3-5.Enclosure No. 3 consists of a letter from the Political Agent at Aden, Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, dated 16 November 1847, regarding the state of affairs at Aden and in the interior. Haines states that the only change which has taken place in the interior of Aden since his last letter (of 30 October 1847) was the sudden arrival of Sultans Nassur and Futhel bin Abdulla Foutheli [Sulṭān Nāṣir and Sulṭān Faḍl bin ‘Abdullāh al-Faḍlī] at Bir Ahmed [Bi’r Aḥmad], with about one hundred mounted followers. Haines reports the effect that the Foutheli [Faḍl] being in the neighbourhood of Aden had on Aden market supplies. Haines also reports the reduction in the number of smallpox cases at Aden and the number of people who have been vaccinated, and includes an enclosed letter to himself from J A Vaughan, Acting Civil Surgeon at Aden.Enclosures Nos. 4-5, listed as copies of the Bombay Times Overland Summaryand the Bombay Overland Telegraph and Courier, dated 1 December 1847, are not included in this item (a note dated 30 October 1906 states that they are missing).Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)
12. نص دون عنوان عن الجدري والحصبة من تأليف محمد بديع
Untitled text on smallpox and measles Muḥammad Badīʿ محمد بديع
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- Physical description: Ff. 159v-163r