Miguel Caetano Dias

Miguel Caetano Dias, (9 July 1854 – 26 July 1936) was a Goan medical doctor.

Dias began his medical career in Goa in 1888. In the same year he was promoted to the rank of major and then to Lieutenant Colonel. He was appointed Chief of Health Services and Director of Escola Medico e Cirurgiao de Goa (Goa Medical School) in 1906.

He was had many honors bestowed upon him by the colonial Portuguese government, including Cavaleiro, Official and Comendador da Real Ordem de S. Bento de Aviz. From the Queen of Portugal, D. Amelia, he received a silver medal for his work in India, and achieved renown for his work in 1908 in exterminating the bubonic plague in Panaji. He became the Mayor of the Panjim Municipality and President of the first Provincial Congress of Goa.

References

• 'Recalling Greatness', by Bailon de Sa (2004). Publisher - Crescencia Educational Trust
• Goanet [1]'
• Goacom.org [2]'
• Goanvoice.com [3]'
• Goanvoice Canada [4]'
• Seeds against Smallpox [5]'
• Gogoa.net - Private and Public Expositions of the body of St.Francis Xavier [6]'

External links

• Biography

External links

• Dr Miguel Caetano Dias' 150th Birth Anniversary Celebrations at drmiguelcaetanodias.tripod.com

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Name	Dias, Miguel Caetano
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Date of birth	9 July 1854
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Date of death	26 July 1936
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