Person physician journalist public-health administrator
Manuel Bettencourt Sardinha
b. 1865
physician · journalist · public-health administrator · mathematician
Funchal physician, public-health administrator, journalist and noted solver of mathematical problems. He directed the Correio da Madeira and edited the Diário de Notícias, and was first administrator of the Campo da Barca disinfection station until retiring in 1919. He also had the Abra quay built in 1905 and bought the original tramway company's rolling stock in 1900, later passing it to the Monte Railway company.
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- Discovery of the archipelago — Diário de Notícias editor who showed Frutuoso's weekday for 1 July 1419 was wrong.
- Diário de Notícias — One of the paper's successive editors.
- Quincentenary of the discovery of Madeira — Contributor to the centenary publication.
- Ilhéu de Fora quay — Had the Abra quay built in 1905.
- American railway — Bought the original tramway company's rolling stock at auction in 1900, later passing it to the Monte Railway company.
- Campo da Barca Disinfection Station — Man of science and journalist who was the station's first administrator until retiring in 1919.
