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The Isolation Hospital at Sir David Bruce Street, Mtarfa was built by the British Services in 1924 as port of the Mtarfa Military Hospital and barracks.

It is a single floor building having a façade in the Classical order with pilasters instead of columns. It has a symmetrical bay with identical front and rear wings with pillastered verandas supporting an arched central bay.

A pediment above the veranda displays the date "1924". The veranda is roofed over four supporting pillars at left and right, with the corners formed of a cluster of three pilasters.

A central wing is connected to the two flanking wings by a closed corridor of matching exterior. The wing consists of the power and boiler rooms. Its sides are identical and balanced having a central portal with pediment above and three windows at left and right set between pilasters. A frieze and a cornice run along the entire roof.

A decade ago vandals set on fire the rear wing of the hospital and some rooms, the veranda and the exterior fabric suffered considerable damage. The slabs in some of the smaller rooms collapsed.

The remainder of the building is still in a good condition although neglected. Mepa scheduled the Isolation Hospital in Mtarfa as a Grade 2 national monument as per Government Notice No. 628/08 in the Government Gazette dated July 12, 2008.