Volume 2

Reports of the Commission appointed by the Admiralty, the War Office, and the civil government of Malta, for the Investigation of Mediterranean Fever / under the supervision of an advisory committee of the Royal Society.

  • Commission for the Investigation of Mediterranean Fever.
Date:
1905-07
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    INTKODXJCTION. In the introductions to Parts I and III the history gf this investiga- tion was related from its commencemebt. iij J,une, 1904, until July, 1905. The Commission appointed to continue the work during the summer of 1905 consisted of Lieut.-Colonel A. M. Davies, R.A.M.C., Major W. H. Horrocks, E.A.M.C., Staff-Surgeon E. A. Shaw, E.N., Dr. T. Zammit, Board of Health, Malta, and Captain J. Crawford Kennedy, E.A.M.C. Lieut.-Colonel Davies left Malta for England on September 24, and Major Horrocks for Gibraltar on October 14, 1905, while Messrs. Shaw, Zammit, and Kennedy continued the investigation during the following winter. The results of the work of the Commission during 1905 are published in Parts III, IV, and V. At a meeting of the Mediterranean Fever Sub-Committee held on February 25, 1906, it was decided to continue the work during the ensuing summer, and, as Messrs. Davies, Horrocks, and Shaw would not be available, that Major T. McCulloch, R.A.M.C., Major J. C. Weir, E.A.M.C., Major J. G. McNaught, E.A.M.C., Staff-Surgeon F. H. A. Clayton, E.N., and Dr. J. W. H. Eyre, M.D., Bacteriologist to Guy's Hospital, be appointed to the Commission in addition to Captain Kennedy and Dr. Zammit. Colonel D. Bruce, E.A.M.C., Chairman of the Sub-Committee, was also requested to proceed to Malta to introduce the new members to the work. He arrived in Malta on April 14, 1906, and work was at once begun on the lines laid down by the Sub-Committee in their memorandum dated February 23, 1906. He left for England on May 5. Dr. Eyre and Major McNaught remained in Malta until September 2, and Staff-Siu-geon Clayton, Majors McCulloch and Weir, and Captain Kennedy until the end of that month. The work done in the summer of 1906 is embodied in Parts V, VI, and VII :— Part VI.—Eeport upon the Bacteriological and Experimental Investigations during the Summer of 1906, by J. W. H. Eyre, M.D., Major J. G. McNaught, E.A.M.C., Captain J. C. Kennedy, E.A.M.C., and Dr. T. Zammit. Part VII.—Epidemiological Work in 1906: {a) Naval, by Staff- Surgeon F. H. A. Clayton, E.N.; {b) Military and Civil, by Majors T. McCulloch and J. C. Weir, E.A.M.C.