JOSEPH-EDOUARD LABERGE, M. D
Joseph-Edouard Laberge, M. D., est né à Sainte-Philomène comté de Chateauguay, le 15 septembre 1863. Son père, feu Edouard Laberge, était médecin, et représenta le comté de Chateauguay au Parlement Provincial. Le nom de sa mère est Nathalie Poulin.
Le Dr. J.-E. Laberge fit ses études classiques au Collège de Montréal, et, en 1884, il était admis à l'étude de la médecine; quatre ans plus tard, en 1888, il recevait de l'Université Laval le titre de Docteur en Médecine.
Mlle ANNIE MONTGOMERY, Surintendante de l'Hôpital Civique.
DEPARTEMENT D'HYGIENE oS:
Après avoir exercé sa profession, pendant trois ans, à Sainte-Philomène, il fnt nommé interne en chef de l'hôpital Notre-Dame. Un an après, en 1892, il allait compléter ses étndes médicales en Europe, oii pendant trois ans, il suivit les cours de l'université et des hôpitaux de Paris. En 1893 et en 1894, il fut élève de M. Roux, à l'Institut Pasteur. Quelque temps après son retour à Montréal, en 1895, le Dr. Laberge fut nommé médecin de l'hôpital des maladies contagieuses, puis Bactériologiste de la ville de Montréal. Depuis le ler janvier 1902, il est chargé du département, qui a pour but, l'extirpation des maladies contagieuses
Il est membre de la Société Médicale de Montréal et de la Medico Chirurgical Societ3^
Le Dr. Laberge est l'auteur de plusieurs travaux scientifiques. En 1895, il présenta un travail à l' American Public Health Society, alors en séance à Montréal, "Sur les inoculations préventives des maladies contagieuses". Il est l'auteur de quelques autres travaux, entre autres, les suivants : "La diphtérie et son traitement", travail lu, en 1899, devant la Medico Chirurgical Society; "De la désinfection", publié dans la Revue Médicale, en 1900; "The Administration of the Ci vie Health Department", publié dans le Montréal Médical Journal, en décembre 1901, et de plusieurs autres travaux.
Miss ANNIE MONTGOMERY.
In the many departments of the civic service, none requires more constant solicitude and délicate attention, than the one which ministers to those suiïering from contagions diseases. The mission of the Health Department is indeed one of mercy, in which the heart enhanses the work of the
Dr. JOHN JOSEPH McCARRY, D. V. S., Inspecteur en Chef des Aliments. Département d'Hygiène.
intelligence. No one has a better claim to a référence in thèse brief sketclies than Miss Annie Montgomery, lady superintendant of the Montréal Civic Hospital.
Miss Montgomery was born at Donegal, Ireland, in 1873, of the niarriage of William Montgomery, of Londonderry, and Annie Bailie, daughter of the late captain William Bailie, of Donegal. In 1875, Miss Montgomery's parents came to Canada. She first received private tuition and afterwards attended the public schools of Toronto.
She entered the Toronto Isolation Hospital, as pupil nurse in 1893, and graduated four years later, in 1897, head of her class. She was that year, appointed head nurse, and subsequently became lady superintendant of that institution.
In 1900, Miss Montgomery resigned that position to accept that of lady superintendent of the Montréal civic hospital. Miss Montgomery is a constant student, she speaks both English and French fluently, and has written a séries of articles on contagions disease nursing. In " Le Journal de Françoise " also appeared an article from her pen, on " The care of délicate infants ".
Miss Montgomery makes a specialty of contagions diseases, and has had charge on three différent occasions of small-pox épidémies, with marked success.
Dr. J. J. McCARREY.
Dr. J. J. McCarrey is the chief of the City Food Inspection Department. His work has proved most efficacious and has been instrumental in contributing to the préservation of the public health.
Dr. McCarrey was born, at Montréal, January i4th 1877. His father is James McCarrey a well known hôtel proprietor
LOUIS-FORTUNAT ROBERT, Inspecteur des Boulangeries. Département d'Hygiène.
and Real Estate owner of tlie west end. Dr. McCarrey received his early éducation at tlie Archibishop's Academy, St. Margaret Street, and then attended the course of the faculty of Comparative Medicine, at McGill University, where he graduated as veterinary surgeon in 1896. For two years after his graduation Dr. McCarrey practised his profession in Montréal. He devoted his time particularly to the study of food, and in 1899, was appointed City Milk Inspector. The campaign carried on by Dr. McCarrey in favor of pure milk proved most effectuai, and Montréal may now claim to hâve perhaps the best milk supply of any city on the continent. The campaign against impure or diluted milk was subsequented broadened out to embrace other articles of food, and in 190O) Dr. McCarrey was appointed head of the Food Inspection Department.
Dr. McCarrey is unmarried. As but natural for a man in his profession, Dr. McCarrey is very proud of horses, and is recognized as one of our leading professional experts on " man's best friend."
