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a man was sent from Gozo as a suspected case about three months ago, and was under observation in hospital about a fortnight, and was then discharged as suffering from influenza. About five weeks later, he developed severe pains in the shoulders and both lower limbs, lasting for three weeks; two or three days more intervene and he is admitted for his present illness Mediterranean fever. Now, when did this man's Mediterranean fever begin? There is no history of partaking of goats milk since he left Gozo three months before, but there is a history of both goats' milk and Gozo cheese preceding the illness diagnosed influenza.

When you left Malta, the bulk of the troops and the hospitals were on goats' milk; since the beginning of June condensed milk has been substituted, and not only has a comparatively heavy incidence been replaced by a low admission rate, but the cases, not infrequent in occurrence, which formerly appeared to be con- tracted in hospital, now don't occur. This is particularly well shown in the case of Bighi, where, as you know, hospital cases used to be frequent, but they haven't had a single one since the milk change there was made. The Deputy Inspector- General is now a milk enthusiast, and is as much gone on goats' milk as the causative agent as he used to be on mosquitoes.

I am sending with this letter an abridged copy of the lecture I gave on the 1st of June. I fear constant and repeated preaching will be wanted as people soon begin to forget and become careless. The lecture in this form has been distributed to every unit. I am not sending it for publication, but I thought you might like to see what I said. It occurred to me to send it earlier, but I had a little difficulty in getting one of the abridged copies.

As you have heard from Weir, I have been out of sorts for some time, and was in Cottonera with phlebitis. I am nearly all right again, but am not yet permitted to use my leg freely.

We have done a good deal in the preliminary arrangement of evidence and tabulating for the report, but this will have to be written up in finished form at home, and that means a good deal of work. We have done as much as we could here.

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No. 179.

Yours, &c.,

T. MCCULLOCH.

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despatch, No. 172, of the 5th September,* forwarding a statement of payments made by the Government of Malta, in connection with the investigation of Mediter- ranean fever, during the quarter ended the 30th June last.

2. I observe that the statement does not include a claim for the sum of £51 48., which was paid by the Crown Agents for the Colonies to the War Office on the 16th June last on account of Colonel Bruce's travelling expenses, and of which you were informed by my despatch, No. 80, of the 11th June,t nor does it include claims for £41 13s. 4d., £46 108., the amounts of Dr. Eyre's salary and subsistence allowance, respectively, for the month of May, which were paid by the Crown Agents on the 5th June.

3. I shall be glad to learn whether it is desired to amend accordingly the state- ment forwarded in Major-General Barron's despatch, or whether it is proposed to include the items mentioned in the preceding paragraph in the claim for the September quarter.

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No. 181.

I have, &c.,

ELGIN.

GOVERNOR SIR C. M. CLARKE to THE EARL OF ELGIN. (Received October 17, 1906.)

(No. 187.)

[See No. 184.]

MY LORD,

The Palace, Valletta, October 12, 1906. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's despatch, No. 151, of the 29th ultimo,‡ regarding the statement of payments made by this Government, in connection with the Mediterranean Fever Commission, during the quarter ended the 30th June last; and to inform you, in reply, that the claims mentioned in paragraph 2 of your Lordship's despatch were entered in the Malta accounts for the month of July last, and will, therefore, be included in the statement for the September quarter.

I have, &c.,

9 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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SIR,

THE EARL OF ELGIN to ACTING Governor BARRON. (Confidential.)

Colonial Office to Admiralty, July 13. Colonial Office to War Office, July 13.

War Office, August 8. Admiralty, August 22.

Downing Street, September 25, 1906. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Sir Charles Clarke's con- fidential despatch of the 28th of June,* on the subject of the disposal of the scientific equip- ment and other stores remaining on hand at the close of the Mediterranean Fever Enquiry, and to transmit to you the accompanying copies of correspondence† with the War Office, Admiralty, and Royal Society, from which you will see that there will be no objec- tion to the instruments desired by the Public Health Department being retained the Malta Government, as well as any others not required by the Society for other researches.

Royau do. "sty, August 30.

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I have, &c.,

ELGIN.

THE EARL OF ELGIN to GOVERNOR SIR C. M. CLARKE.

(No. 151.)

SIR.

No. 180.

[Answered by No. 181.]

Downing Street, September 29, 1906. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Major-General Barron's

† Nos. 169, 170, 171, 172 and 174.

* No. 168.

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SIR,

No. 182.

CHAS. M. CLARKE,

Governor.

COLONIAL OFFICE to ADMIRALTY and WAR OFFICE. [Copy to Governor, No. 175, and Crown Agents, October 24, 1906: not printed.]

Downing Street, October 24, 1906. WITH reference to the letter from this Department of the 2nd of June, § I am

Army Council,

directed by the Earl of Elgin to transmit to you, to be laid before the Lords Commis- sioners of the Admiralty, the accompanying certified statement|| of expenditure for

the quarter ended 30th June last, which has been defrayed from Malta funds in con- nection with the Mediterranean Fever Commission.

I am to request that instructions may be given for the payment of one-third of the total expenditure shown, say £152 Os. 8d., from Navy funds to the Crown

Army Agents for the Colonies to the credit of Malta funds.

I am, &c.,

H. BERTRAM COX.

• No. 175.

↑ Not printed.

‡ No. 180.

§ No. 163.

Enclosure in No. 181.

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