3-017-249 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Cholera at Malta: the 100th Regiment encamped on the glacis of Fort Manoel, 1865. Engraving of a sketch by Captain Cecil Lyon. 'This regiment, under the command of Major H. Cook, was moved from Lower St. Elmo Barracks on the 26th of July, when, owing to several cases of cholera having occurred amongst the men, his Excellency the Governor, Sir Henry Storks, with his usual foresight, ordered the regiment to be placed at once under canvas. The result of this change has been most beneficial, no fatal case having occurred for the last month. The road in the centre of the camp leading to the marquee used for the officers' mess, as well as the jetty [in the foreground], was constructed by the labour of the troops themselves. The building on the right is Fort Manoel, the head-quarters of the 8th (the King's) Regiment, and those on the left, and which are situated on the Valetta side of the quarantine harbour, are the Floriana suburbs and the barracks of the 4th Regiment. The lower range of building directly above the camp is the Lazaretto, or quarantine station, where persons arriving from infected ports undergo their prescribed term of confinement before they are allowed to enter the town or to have any intercourse with the population'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865.