Royal Navy Hospital Mtarfa
The Royal Navy Hospital Mtarfa was a naval hospital of the British Royal Navy in the Maltese town of Mtarfa .
history
The hospital was commissioned in 1912 to replace the aging hospital in Valletta . During the First World War , the soldiers of the Australian-New Zealand Army Corps found who were injured in the failed invasion of Gallipoli . During the Second World War , the hospital was expanded significantly. In the 1950s it was named after Sir David Bruce , who discovered the causative agent of Malta fever (brucellosis). Until the withdrawal of the British from independent Malta in 1979, it served the British armed forces as the main hospital in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Today the building serves as a secondary school named after Sir Themistocles Żammit .
Web links
- Imtarfa Military Hospital and Garden. (PDF) In: National Inventory of the Cultural Property of the Maltese Islands. Sovrintendenza tal-Patrimonju Kulturale, December 28, 2012, accessed on October 19, 2019 .
Coordinates: 35 ° 53 '23.3 " N , 14 ° 23' 44.1" E