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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: July 22, 2014
Caption: Frederick Montizambert plaque, inside the Disinfection Building
Additional Description: (1843-1929)
English:
Medical superintendent at Grosse Île for thirty years, and later responsible for all the quarantine stations in Canada, Dr. Frederick Montizambert played a pioneering role in the fields of bacteriology and epidemiology. In 1899, he became the first Director General of Public Health in the country. A forceful advocate of preventive medicine, disinfection and vaccination, he worked at a time of massive immigration to protect Canadians from the many, often-fatal contagious diseases then prevalent around the world.br French:
Surintendant médical de la station de quarantaine de la Grosse Île durant trente ans, puis responsable de toutes les autres au Canada, le médecin Frederick Montizambert joua un rôle de précurseur dans le domaine de la bactériologie et de l'épidémiologie. En 1899, il devint le premier directeur général de la Santé publique au pays. Fervent défenseur de la médecine préventive, de la désinfection et de la vaccination, il a, dans un contexte d'immigration massive, cherché à protéger la population canadienne des nombreuses maladies contagieuses, souvent mortelles, qui sévissaient alors à travers le monde.
Submitted: February 7, 2015, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p299703
File Size: 3.530 Megabytes

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