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times a harder life, and expected less in the way of comfort and luxury than now. They found in the hospital at Malta certainly as much, and probably far more, care and attention than they would have received elsewhere. It consequently maintained to the last a very high reputation, and reflected great credit on the fraternity.[1]

  1. For further details of this Hospital the reader is referred to a work entitled "The Regulations of the old Hospital of the knights of St. John at Valetta," by the Rev. W. K. R. Bedford.