Malta fever

Abstract

In the April and June numbers of this Journal for 1904, there appeared Editorials bringing up to that date our knowledge of Malta Fever. A good deal of work has been done since then, and many new facts and observations obtained. It will be well, then, to again make a survey of this subject, which is of such importance to the Army and Navy in Malta, this fever being said to give rise, yearly, to some 120,000 days of disease among the soldiers and sailors stationed there. The same arrangement of the new matter will be made as in previous papers, in order to make comparison easy. This arrangement brings the subject, broadly, under four heads: I. Epidemiology. II. How does the Micrococcns melitensis leave the body'? Ill. The Micrococcus outside the body. IV. How does the Micrococcus gain entrance to the body? But first a word in regard to the history of the investigation of this disease since 1904.