Terence Joseph McGann Born 15 April 1843, in Whitemount, Kilnaboy, Co. Clare, was a senior

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in Princely state of

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. He was senior surgeon with

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from 1885 to 1896 and he later appointed as official doctor to

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and his family, the ''Darbar Surgeon'' from 1905 to 1906. He put efforts to improve the lives of

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, tried to prevent epidemics like

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and impressed upon the Government about "the importance of improving village sanitation,....improving and conversing the

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and promoting general cleanliness, by preventing the storage of

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in the streets and backyards of houses, the defilement of ground in and immediately around towns and villages would be a distinct gain, would improve the general health of people, diminish their liability to fevers, bovel complaints and cholera, and tend to check the spread of the last named disease on its occurrence amongst them". McGann worked in

Shimoga Shimoga, officially known as Shivamogga, is a city and the district headquarters of Shimoga district in the central part of the state of Karnataka, India. The city lies on the banks of the Tunga River. Being the gateway for the hilly region of ...

hospital maintained by Mysore Government and exclusively worked to control

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which was rampant in the area during 19th century. He worked in Shimoga for more than three decades and retired in 1908, returned to

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, but again came back to Mysore and stayed there till his death on 22 November 1936.

McGann Hospital

A Hospital in memory of McGann was constructed at Shimoga, (a part of Mysore State) during 1932-1935 and it is called McGANN Hospital,

. The foundation stone for the hospital was laid by then Maharaja of Mysore,

Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV Maharaja Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV (Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar; 4 June 1884 – 3 August 1940) was the twenty-fourth maharaja of the Kingdom of Mysore, from 1902 until his death in 1940. He is popularly called ''Rajarshi'' ( sa, rājarṣi, lit ...

on 16 January 1932. The hospital was developed during later decades, by Government of

Karnataka Karnataka (; ISO: , , also known as Karunāḍu) is a state in the southwestern region of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act. Originally known as Mysore State , it was renamed ''Karnat ...

as a Government run hospital with good medical facilities and it is also attached to a Medical College during first decade of 21st Century (2007) and managed by Government Departments.

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