Ministry for Health
Baroque former courthouse of the Knights, now a health ministry with a historic fever laboratory.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Ministry for Health at the Castellania in Valletta follows Themistocles Zammit, the Maltese member of a British commission hunting Malta fever in the early nineteen hundreds. It begins on a June day in nineteen oh five, when he sat down to test six goats bought from ordinary herds. Along the way you'll meet the Public Health Department that took over the Knights' old courthouse, and Zammit's colleague Major Horrocks. Best heard on Merchants Street, near the corner pillory.
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