Description | Lists those present -- Col Bruce as Chairman, Francis Darwin, Sir Archibald Geikie, and Fleet-Surgeon Bassett-Smith. Gives committee business -- 1. Signing of last meeting's minutes. 2. Appointment of Dr J Eyre to the committee. 3. Communications from Col Bruce's trip to Malta, and the discovery that goats seem to be susceptible to the fever, with subsequent discovery by Major Horrocks, Kennedy and Dr Zammit that the milk of these goats are 'crammed with M melitensis' -- notes that 'the Commission may be on the eve of an important and possibly far-reaching discovery' in identifying goats as carriers, with recommendations to notify the Maltese authorities at once. 4. Decision to publish the Reports of the Commission as soon as possible. 5. Resolution to enquire if the Colonial Office has acted on the committee's suggestion to send health officials to Malta. p25-29. |