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Title: | The burning of ships as a sanitary measure two hundred years ago in Malta |
Authors: | Cassar, Paul |
Keywords: | Ships -- Sanitation -- History Plague -- Malta -- History |
Issue Date: | 1990 |
Publisher: | Maltese Medical Journal |
Citation: | Maltese Medical Journal. 1990, Vol. 2(2), p. 22-25 |
Abstract: | Woven throughout Maltese medical history is the constant struggle against the possibility of an invasion of the Maltese Islands by pestilence introduced by plague-infected ships. This is an account of the case histories of three plague-infected ships that came to Malta in the late eighteenth century and were destroyed by burning to eradicate the "contagion" on board. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/596 |
Appears in Collections: | MMJ, Volume 2, Issue 2 MMJ, Volume 2, Issue 2 |
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