[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.] CONFIDENTIAL. C. 13th Meeting. 31482 [6661/97/91] INTER-DEPARTMENTAL PILGRIMAGE QUARANTINE COMMITTEE. - Minutes of a Meeting held at the Foreign Office on Monday, June 6, 1921, at 3 P.M. Present : Dr. G. BUCHANAN, C.B., Ministry of Health (in the Chair). Mr. J. MURRAY, Foreign Office. Major H. W. YOUNG, D.S.O., Colonial Office. Mr. P. J. PATRICK, India Office. Mr. G. FULLERTON-CARNEGIE, Foreign Office (Secretary Major W. BATTEN, late British Agent at Jeddah, attended by invitation of the Committee, and Lieutenant-Colonel LAWRENCE, Colonial Office, was also present. The Committee had before them the minutes of the 12th Meeting of the Committee; India Office letter No. R. & S. 1033/21 of the 16th February to Messrs. A. Holt and Co. ; telegram of the 28th February from the British Agent at Jeddah to the Foreign Office; Foreign Office Memorandum of the 3rd June on the possible conditions for the improvement of the pilgrimage susceptible of inclusion in a draft treaty between His Majesty's Government and King Hussein. Points arising out of 12th Meeting. The Chairman pointed out that great difficulties had arisen this year owing to the delay in the opening of the Kamaran quarantine station, and enquired whether any official information had yet been received as to the date on which the station was opened and as to whether the full quarantine measures were now being carried out.. Mr. Patrick stated that the Government of India had been asked to furnish a detailed statement on this question. This report was expected at an early date and would be communicated to the Departments concerned. In the meantime he could only state that the staff and equipment had left India on the 14th April. The minutes of the 12th Meeting were approved. Constitution of the Committee. Owing to Departmental rearrangements and other causes some changes had become necessary in the personnel of the Committee. These will be formally signified later on completion of correspon dence between the Departments concerned. Conditions affecting Pilgrimage and Quarantine Arrangements susceptible of inclusion in the Treaty with King Hussein. The Chairman stated that from the point of view of the Ministry of Health the ideal solution would be for the pilgrimage and quarantine arrangements in the Hedjaz to be placed under expert British control, and he expressed the hope that this ideal would not be lost sight of in drafting the treaty which it was now proposed might be concluded with King Hussein. Mr. Murray explained that the proposed treaty was only part'of the policy of His Majesty's Government in the Middle East directed 29—3 [6434]
