Hugh DIXON.

Unassuming combined grave but of huge significance in the history of Mediterranean Fever. On 9 July 1887, Surgeon Captain David Bruce of the Army Medical Department working at the Station hospital Valletta isolated the Micrococcus melitensis in tubes of agar-agar nutrient jelly inoculated with spleen sections from nine fatal cases of Malta fever. His first isolate was from the spleen of Pte Hugh Dixon A Coy 1st/The Black Watch who died on 6 July 1887, aged 25 years, after an illness of 12 days. In August 1887, Bruce inoculated monkeys with pure cultures of micrococcus melitensis, and after death, isolated the micro-organism from their spleens, demonstrating the cause of Malta Fever. The monkey was an expensive animal, and at that time no help was given to private pathological work in the army, so that Bruce had to buy these monkeys out of his own slender pay. Up to Bruce's discovery of the micrococcus, Malta Fever was blamed on effluvia finding its way into the barracks from porous subsoil which had become saturated and contaminated with sewage. The Grand Harbour was at one time thought to be the breeding place of the fever due to it resembling a cesspool from the accumulation of vegetable matter discharged by all the ships in the harbour and the sewage of the surrounding cities.
Pte Dixon's death was not in vain.

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