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THE statistical report of tha health of the Navy for the year 1931, by the Medical Director General, Vice-Adm. R. St. G. S. Bond, states that there was an increase in the incidence of disease as compared with the five years' average and with 1930, largely due to an increase in influenza of nearly 2,000 cases. Malaria and venereal diseases declined markedly. Nine cases of undulant fever were reported from the Mediterranean station. It is remarked that undulant fever has increased among Maltese civilians, and in consequence a Government commission is considering the possibility of introducing the compulsory pasteurisation of goats' milk at a central distributing station and the prohibition of retail sales as at present transacted by driving the goats from door to door. Only five cases of enteric fevers were reported.
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Health of the Navy during 1931. Nature 131, 906 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131906a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/131906a0