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W. W. Birdsall

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W. W. Birdsall
OccupationPhysician; Medical Health Officer

W. W. Birdsall was a physician who served as Medical Health Officer of Thunder Bay.[1]

Career

  • Appointed Medical Health Officer in August 1897, succeeding Dr. W. H. Hamilton.[1]
  • As Health Officer, protested against the location of the municipal water intake at the junction of Sprague Street and the Kaministiquia River, noting that two sewers emptied into the river above the intake; urged that the intake be relocated at least a mile further upstream.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 E. B. Oliver."Department of Health."[book].Papers of the Thunder Bay Historical Society.1914.p. 30 (scan p. 184).Link.(Rights: public_domain | Access: open)