https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/65503 Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:25:38 GMT 2026-04-06T01:25:38Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/65493 Title: The Gozo Observer : Issue 42 : Summer 2020 Editors: Briguglio, Lino; Calleja, Joseph; Cauchi, Maurice N.; Camilleri Rolls, Caroline Abstract: 1/ Editorial: Spotlight on Gozo -- 2/ AZZOPARDI, G. - Late Mediaeval Anchoritism in Europe and the Mediterranean and its Surviving Elements in Gozo -- 3/ SALIBA, M. - A Snippet of Undulant Fever in Gozo One Hundred Years Ago -- 4/ FARRUGIA, M. - Safeguarding Gozo’s Cultural and Environmental Heritage -- 5/ SALAFIA, S. - Curious Gozitan Placenames -- 6/ BORG, D. - Collaboration and Innovation: The Way Forward for Gozo -- 7/ ATTARD, G. G. - Il-Ħajja f’Għawdex: a 75-year old Voice for Gozo -- 8/ Book reviews -- 9/ CALLEJA, J. - Recent Activities at the University of Malta – Gozo Campus. Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/65493 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/65492 Title: Editorial : spotlight on Gozo Abstract: The Gozo Observer has been highlighting issues of significance in Gozo for the last 20 years and has now established a regular audience among readers in both islands. It is worthwhile from time to time to pause and reflect on the contribution of Gozo to the wider international scene. Without any doubt from the prehistoric point of view, Ġgantija temples can be proud of an international audience with an annual number of visitors in excess of 186,000, one of the largest and first above-ground temples built inexplicably on one of the smallest islands in the world. [excerpt] Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/65492 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/65491 Title: Late mediaeval anchoritism in Europe and the Mediterranean and its surviving elements in Gozo Abstract: By the late Mediaeval period, a new phenomenon in the form of what is known as ‘anchoritism’ made its appearance in Europe and the Mediterranean. This phenomenon did not remain alien to the Maltese Islands and to Gozo in particular. This contribution seeks to trace any of its surviving elements in Gozo through two case studies: that of San Kerrew in Qala and that of San Eliju in the limits of Għajnsielem. But as it was a European and Mediterranean phenomenon, anchoritism and any of its surviving elements in Gozo are looked upon through these two case studies within the broader European and Mediterranean context. Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/65491 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/65490 Title: A snippet of undulant fever in Gozo one hundred years ago Abstract: Undulant fever, also known as Remittent fever, Malta fever, Mediterranean fever, Brucellosis and up to 40 other names, is a type of infectious disease producing fever which goes up and down for a protracted time, leading to physical weakness. It is caused by the bacteria Brucella of which Brucella melitensis is the most common type in humans (The Centre for Food Security and Public Health, 2018). It is called Brucellosis because the bacterium causing it, Micrococcus melitensis, was discovered by David Bruce in 1887.1 It was a disease which caused complications in bone and other organs and lead to debilitating consequences rather than a high mortality rate. It should be noted that as early as 1904, Sir Themi Zammit had already discovered that goats were the reservoir for B. melitensis and so they were the vectors of the disease so that when humans consumed raw goats’ milk they got infected with the disease (Rizzo Naudi, 2019). On 7th October 1919 the Medical Officer of Health (MOH) for Gozo, Dr Adriano Cremona wrote to the Superintendent of the Victoria Hospital informing him that from the returns of deaths from 24th to 30th September 1919 there was a case of death from Acute Bronchitis of a male patient aged 70 from Nadur, whereas annexed certificate of death states that the patient died from undulant fever. The Superintendent was asked by the MOH to clarify which of the two causes of death was correct. If it was from undulant fever he was asked to report the case immediately and to state for how long the patient had been an inmate of the Gozo Ospizio. This shows the importance assigned by the health authorities of tracing all cases of undulant fever. This was important to see if the patient had contracted the disease while he was an inpatient at the Victoria Hospital. [excerpt] Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/65490 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z