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with tlie result that an epidemic of jNlalta fever broke 

 out on the ship, and every one who drank this milk 

 contracted the disease. 



P1(i)i of CdDipaign. — Preventive measures com- 

 menced in .June IDOG. First the goat's milk was 

 banished from the hospitals and regiments ; then it 

 was forbidden, and in Ciibraltar the goats were them- 

 selves got rid of. 



Results. — Tlie prophylactic measures commenced 

 in July IDOG, and almost immediately a diminution 

 of the disease occurred. Thus for the months of 

 July, August, and September 1905 there were 258 

 cases ; for the same months of 190G there were only 

 26 cases. 



In the Naval Hospital in JNIalta, a model institution 

 in every respect previous to the stopping of the 

 goats' milk, nearly every patient suffered from the 

 disease ; after stopping the supply of milk not a single 

 case occurred. 



From Gibraltar Major Horrocks reports the dis- 

 appearance of Malta fever simultaneously with the 

 disappearance of the Maltese goats. 



At the present time all goats in Malta are 

 registered and numbered, and their milk, and, if 

 necessary, their blood, examined for the presence of 

 infection, by Dr. Zammitt of the Public Health 

 Department. If infected the goat is slaughtered. 



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