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mental ailments and became a skillful 

 alienist, rising step by step in the Asylum 

 staff until he became Director, a position 

 which he filled for sixteen years. 



He became involved again in the revolu- 

 tionary movement that of 1895 and was 

 forced to flee to Mexico where he continued 

 the practice of medicine and became a 

 member of the faculty of the University 

 of Mexico, meantime conspiring actively 

 and at much cost to himself against the 

 Spanish rule by establishing political clubs 

 which maintained a constant propaganda 

 in support of Cuban liberty and of the 

 Revolution as a means thereto. 



At the end of the war (1898) Malberti 

 came back to Cuba to accept the post of 

 President of the Board of Managers of the 

 Hospital for the Insane. In 1902 he was 

 elected Representative on the Liberal ticket 

 and chosen Vice-president in two Con- 

 gresses and President in one. During his 

 period of service in the Legislature he was 

 author of no fewer than eighteen bills affect- 

 ing the public health and the organization 

 of sanitary service. 



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