debarro paid for the statue, which was sculpted out of marble by vincenzo dimech. it was erected in the city and it was blessed on 19 may 1816. the statue was relocated in 1955 and it still exists today. in 1991, a street in xagħra was named triq george mcadam after the military doctor who died in the plague. a street in qormi is named triq il-barrakki after the huts built to house the infected in the epidemic. literary works a number of accounts of the plague were written, such as g. m. de piro's ragguaglio storico della pestilenza che afflisse le isole di malta e gozo negli anni 1813 e 1814 which was published in livorno in 1833. gioacchino ermolao barbaro, who had lost three children in the plague, wrote three sonnets and a poem in italian about the epidemic. they are all entitled per la peste di malta nell'anno 1813 and they were published in 1843.