Page 59 - Russo-Persian Postal Relations

I.D 1907-14 Russian supporting the "Conseil Sanitaire" "SERVICE"
Public health work stamp on mail
Diseases rampant very elusive
North eastern Persia under Russian hegemony
Due to its geographical centrality and shared borders with India, Afghanistan, Russia, and the Ottoman Empire, Persia
was perceived as a major thoroughfare for the propagation of cholera into Europe. Traditionally, Herat would acquire the
disease from India via Kandahar or Kabul, and then transmit it to the city of Mashhad in northeastern Persia
From the "CONSEIL SANITAIRE le President" to Torbete-Heidari in Khorassan, Near the Afghan border. Run by Russia
One of he highest recorded rate for a SERVICE cover, 13 x 9ch = Skr l 7ch
Sent
23 April
1914 by the
CON SEIL
SANITAIRE
From
Teheran
23.IV.14 via
Meched
7 May to
Torbete-
Heidari in
Khorassan
in north
eastern
Persia
The
10-block
of the 9-ch
overeprint
SERVICE
is the
largest
recorded of
any block
of the
SERVICE
overprinted
during the
Qajar period
Below
Reduced
negative
mark of
LEMPIRE
DE PERSE
SANITAIRE
stamped on
the front.