https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/45339 2026-04-11T11:25:23Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/105873 Title: Further observations on goats, cats, rats, and ambulatory cases in connection with Mediterranean fever Abstract: The advisory committee having suggested the advisability of making observations to determine whether or not there existed a seasonal prevalence of Mediterranean Fever amongst goats such as exist amongst men, I proceeded during the first week in March, 1906, to re-examine the goats supplying milk to Bighi Hospital in order to be able to compare the winter prevalence then found with the summer prevalence previously ascertained by me in the same group of goats in June to July, 1905. This examination was commenced on March 3 and finished on March 11. At this period 74 goats were supplying milk to this hospital as against 91 goats at the previous examination. The component herds were the same on both occasions, but the smaller number in the winter was due to the larger average yield of milk per goat at the period associated with a somewhat smaller number of patients in hospital. 1906-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/105711 Title: Mediterranean fever in goats, cows, and other animals Abstract: This articles discusses experiments conducted to test to what degree goats, cattle and other animals are susceptible to Mediterranean fever. The manner in which animals become infected with Mediterranean fever is a matter of considerable interest and importance. Up to the present all the evidence available points to their food as being the main vehicle of infection. 1906-07-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/105704 Title: Goats as a means of propagation of Mediterranean fever Abstract: In Part III. of the Reports of the Commission a preliminary note was published on this subject, in which it was shown that goats in Malta suffer from Mediterranean fever, and excrete the micrococcus melitensis in their milk and urine. The further study of this subject may be divided into the following parts :- (1) Examination of goats living in pens (a) in the immediate neighbourhood of Valletta and Sliema, and (b) in the mow remote parts of the Island. (2) Experiments made to determine the possibility of infecting animals by feeding them on milk cultures and infected milk. (3) Experiments to determine the mode in which the goats themselves become infected. (4) Experiments to determine whether it is possible to destroy the M. melitensis by pasteurisation of the infected milk. 1906-04-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/105554 Title: Preliminary note on goats as a means of propagation of Mediterranean fever Abstract: With the object of ascertaining, by experimental inoculation, whether goats could be infected by the M. Melitensis, six goats were bought on June 12, 1905, from two different herds, and placed in the lazaretto. On June 14 Dr. Zammit, as a preliminary step to our experimental work, took blood from each of these goats, and proceeded to test the action of the serum on the M. Melitensis. He found, to his great surprise, that the serum of five of the goats, when considerably diluted, caused agglutination of this microbe. On June 15 similar results being again obtained, Dr. Zammit brought specimens of the bloods to the Public Health Laboratory, and asked me to confirm his observations. 1905-08-03T00:00:00Z