França (Dr Carlos)
Original title: França (Dr. Carlos)
Military physician and bacteriologist sent to direct sanitary services during Madeira's 1910 cholera epidemic, honoured by Funchal council in 1911; he wrote on the epidemic and on the Porto Santo rabbit.
A military physician and distinguished bacteriologist, sent to Madeira by the government during the cholera epidemic of 1910. He rendered this island outstanding services as head of the sanitary services throughout the epidemic, consistently showing uncommon professional skill and great self-sacrifice in carrying out the many duties entrusted to him.
On 5 March 1911 a formal session was held in honour of Dr Carlos França at the town hall (Paços do Concelho). On that occasion the president of the Council presented him with an elegant, finely ornamented silver cup and a portfolio with allegorical inlaid work (embutidos) in native woods, containing the address the president had read at the session.
Dr Carlos França’s wife attended the ceremony, and the Council presented her with a beautiful corbeille of fresh flowers, decorated with ribbons in the national colours.
Dr França wrote the following works relating to Madeira: A Epidemia colérica da Madeira, 1910-1911, a report submitted to the Ministry of the Interior, Lisbon, 1911, 91 pp.; Le Cholera à Madère (Bullet. de la Soc. de Pathologie Exotique, vol. IV, 1911); and Contribution à l'étude du Lapin de Porto Santo (Bullet. de la Soc. Port. de Sc. Natur, VI, 1913).
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Time
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A cholera epidemic struck Madeira, causing about 550 deaths; Dr Carlos França was sent to direct sanitary services, and the lazaretto and a makeshift hospital at the Machico fort treated patients.
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Funchal council held a solemn session honouring Dr Carlos França.
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Dr Carlos França published his study of the Porto Santo rabbit.
Place
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- Funchal town hall
Funchal. Site of the 1911 ceremony in his honour.
The Paços do Concelho is Funchal's town hall, a former residence of the Conde de Carvalhal. João IV was acclaimed there in 1641 and Maria II proclaimed there in 1834, and the Unknown Soldier's urn lay in state there. Its tower housed the central telephone exchange, and it was isolated from adjoining buildings during the 1943–44 works.
- Porto Santo
Island whose rabbit he studied.
An island of the archipelago, settled alongside Madeira and forming one of the three captaincies. It has always constituted a single parish, dedicated to Nossa Senhora da Piedade, whose church was repeatedly sacked. The Elucidário records the Moorish pirate raid of 1617, its own Misericórdia and a rainwater channel built on this drought-prone island.
People
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Military doctor who led sanitary services in the 1910–11 cholera epidemic.