António Balbino do Rego
b. 1874
physician · laboratory director · writer
Mainland Portuguese physician who directed Funchal's Bacteriology and Hygiene Laboratory and the Gonçalo Aires isolation hospital during the 1905–06 bubonic plague outbreak. Popular hostility to his strict isolation measures forced him to leave Madeira after the riots of January 1906. He later wrote two pamphlets on the affair.
1Mentioned in
- Laboratory of Bacteriology and Hygiene — First director of the laboratory, forced to leave the post after the events in Funchal of January 1906.
- Bubonic plague — Physician and director of the Funchal Lazareto who diagnosed bubonic plague in 1905 and was falsely accused by the populace of murdering patients.
- Popular riots — Clinical director of the Gonçalo Aires isolation hospital, blamed by the populace for imagined crimes in 1906; he later wrote two pamphlets on the affair.
2Chronology
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António Balbino do Rego was born.
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António Balbino do Rego completed his medical course in Porto.
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A decree created the Laboratory of Bacteriology and Hygiene in Funchal, whose director became António Balbino do Rego.
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Bubonic plague appeared in Funchal in late 1905 without becoming epidemic; patients were isolated at the Gonçalo Aires lazaretto, whose strict isolation fed popular fear and unrest.
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During the bubonic plague episode a popular riot sacked the Funchal Lazaretto at Gonçalo Aires and freed its patients; the disturbances forced the bacteriology laboratory director Balbino do Rego to leave his post.
3Places mentioned
Abroad