Dr Miguel Caetano Dias

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Dr Miguel Caetano Dias, (b 9 July 1854, d 26 July 1936). Began medical career in Goa 1888, promoted to rank of major and in the same year to Lieutenant Colonel. Appointed Chief of Health Services & Director of Escola Medico e Cirurgiao de Goa (Goa Medical School) in 1906. Bestowed several honours by the colonial Portuguese government: Cavaleiro, Official and Comendador da Real Ordem de S. Bento de Aviz. From the Queen of Portugal, D. Amelia, he received the silver medal for his work in India and achieved renown for his work in exterminating the bubonic plague in Panaji in 1908. Mayor of Panjim Municipality and President of the first Provincial Congress of Goa. At the request of the government, drew up a report for the sanitation, hygiene and aesthetics of Panjim.[1]

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