Goats' Milk Anyone?

  Valletta; a young milk seller

  Fresh goats' milk was sold all over Malta by milking the animal right at people's doorstep in the nineteen twenties.   This went on even up to the 'forties, notwithstanding the discovery by the prominent Maltese physician, Sir Temi Zammit, on June 25th, 1905, that unpasturised goats' milk was the cause of Undulant Fever (sometimes referred to as Mediterranean Fever) in Malta; a disease which threatened to become an epidemic.

  Milk sellers lead their herd down Strada Mercanti;
(Merchants Street) right in the heart of Valletta

 
 

 
 

At Home in Valletta

 
Catherine and the children at
the "House of Four Winds" (1920)

  The 'House' has an amazing view, situated high above Marsamxetto Harbour, its panorama stretches as far as Msida Creek at one extreme and the exit of the harbour, Dragut Point (Tigne' Barracks, Sliema), at the other.

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