Sardinha (Dr Manuel)
Original title: Sardinha (Dr. Manuel)
Biography of Dr Manuel Sardinha (b. 1865), Funchal physician, public-health administrator, journalist and noted solver of mathematical problems.
He was born in Funchal on 20 September 1865 and qualified as a physician and surgeon at the now defunct Medical-Surgical School (Escola Médico-Cirúrgica) of this city. He served as municipal medical officer in Fajã da Ovelha (‘the ewe’s flat’) and Ribeira Brava (‘wild river’). He was later appointed administrator of the Land Disinfection Station (Posto de Desinfecção Terrestre), run by the District General Council (Junta Geral), and is at present retired. He has contributed to various newspapers, was an editor of the Diário de Notícias and is the current director of the Correio da Madeira (1921). His contributions over several years to the Almanach Bertrand, as a solver of mathematical problems, are most valuable and have been highlighted there in a very honourable and exceptionally distinguished way for Dr Manuel Sardinha.
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Places mentioned · 03
- Fajã da Ovelha
Calheta. Where he was municipal doctor.
Fajã da Ovelha is a parish in the municipality of Calheta, western Madeira. It grew from the chapel of São Lourenço, and its new church was built in the 18th century. It is watered by the old Rabaçal levada, contains the Pico da Fonte do Bispo in its uplands, and is noted for producing some of Madeira's best peaches.
- Funchal
His birthplace and place of medical training.
The capital of the archipelago and seat of the principal captaincy, where settlement began; it was made a vila c.1451–52. Its bay, the widest in the archipelago, lies between Ponta do Garajau and Ponta da Cruz and offers sheltered anchorage, though its harbour had never been studied oceanographically. The Elucidário discusses it as a health resort with climate data and records the January 1906 disturbances, the Danish prince's visit in May 1846 and recent volcanic cones in the area.
- Ribeira Brava
Where he was municipal doctor.
Municipality of Madeira created in 1914 from parishes of Ponta do Sol and Câmara de Lobos. Its seat, the sítio of Lugar, was raised to the status of vila in 1928.
People
People mentioned · 01- Manuel Bettencourt Sardinhab. 1865
Funchal physician, director of the Correio da Madeira, subject of this entry.