Haffkine's vaccine saved thousands of lives with Viegas personally inoculating around eighteen thousand residents.Īfter his death in 1933, a life-size statue of him was erected in the Cowasji Jehangir Hall opposite Metro Cinema on his birth centenary in 1956, by the Governor of Bombay Presidency, Harekrushna Mahtab, as a tribute to the services rendered to the city. With his diagnosis proving to be correct, the Governor of Bombay invited W M Haffkine, who had earlier formulated a vaccine for cholera, do the same for the epidemic. To confirm Viegas' findings, four teams of independent experts were brought in. He then launched a vociferous campaign to clean up slums and exterminate rats, the carriers of the plague. Viegas correctly diagnosed the disease as bubonic plague and tended to patients at great personal risk. The city's commerce was badly hit, and the flourishing textile industry was grounded. Those in the medical field were puzzled by this disease which saw a mass exodus from the city. The disease spread rapidly affecting many city residents and became an epidemic. In 1896, a mysterious disease hit the city in the Nowroji Hill slums. He was also an examiner in Medicine at the degree level and Foundation-Fellow of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He also introduced Portuguese into the syllabus and supported the creation of special colleges for women. Viegas was also a member of the Bombay University Syndicate, and was the pioneer of the Faculty of Scientific Technology.
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As president, Viegas promoted medical relief and introduced compulsory free education. He also tried to minimise the increases of public utility costs. He then focused his attention to improving the living conditions of the city's poor and down-trodden. He was an active member of the Standing Committee and the Improvement Trust.
In 1906 he became the President of the Municipal Corporation, enjoying the distinction of being the first native Christian to do so. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. Not satisfied with serving the public only through medicine, he successfully contested the civic election from 1888 until 1907. For some time, Ive been wondering whether this costume of medieval plague doctors actually could have been beneficial, eg by keeping doctors from touching. The Year of the Plague 1979 ‘El año de la peste’ Directed by Felipe Cazals Synopsis A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. Viegas then set up practice at Mandvi in the south Bombay area. He then enrolled in the Grant Medical College, securing a First Class at the L.M. After the completion of his primary education, he joined St Xavier's High School, Bombay, where he completed his matriculation in 1874 with a distinction. Acacio Viegas was born on 1 April 1856 in Arpora, Goa.
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