Epidemics

Team in the trauma bay, MGH, 2020. Image courtesy of the Montreal General Hospital Foundation.

Geneviève Lambert, kinesiologist, MGH Peri-Operative Program, wearing a PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) portrait, 2021. Photo by Laura Rendon and Geneviève Lambert.

Kenneth Drummond, kinesiologist, with a patient in the MGH Peri-Operative Program, wearing a PPE portrait, 2021. Photo by Laura Rendon and Geneviève Lambert.

Anh Thy Le Quang, kinesiologist, MGH Peri-Operative Program, wearing a PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) portrait, 2021. Photo by Laura Rendon and Geneviève Lambert.

Branston Generator (right), c. 1918. Art and Heritage Centre of the MUHC, 2012-0204; with a clipping from the Ottawa Journal, October 19, 1918

Appreciation for MGH Nurses, 2020. Courtesy the Montreal General Hospital Foundation

Left: Page from La Presse, showing an influenza-related advisory poster from the Montreal Health Board, 11 October 1918. BAnQ; Right: COVID-19 poster published by the ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux, July 2020

Inside the MGH Resuscitation Tent, which extended the capacities of the Emergency Department in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020. Courtesy of the Montreal General Hospital Foundation

John A. Schweitzer, LLD, OSA, RCA, Centrifuge (diptych), 1995, collage on paper. Collection of the Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC.

Branston Generator (right), c. 1918. Art and Heritage Centre of the MUHC, 2012-0204

Branston Generator (right), c. 1918. Art and Heritage Centre of the MUHC, 2012-0204, with a clipping from the Ottawa Journal, October 19, 1918

Catholic Sailors’ Club, 329 Common St., Montreal, Canada, date unknown. BanQ, Collection Michel Bazinet

Marrio Robert, 2020. Influenza à Montréal 1918 – Cas et décès par jour, dans L’influenza de 1918-1919 à Montréal : « Le baromètre tragique ». Archives de Montréal.

Certificate from the MGH presented to nurse Janet Morell for service during the 1918 influenza Pandemic. Archives of Alumnae Association of the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing

Stone erected in to commemorate Irish immigrants who died of ship’s fever in 1847 by the workmen of Victoria Bridge, St. Patrick street, c. 1870-1920. BAnQ, Massicotte Albums, MAS 7-73-c

William Notman, Construction buildings from top of bridge, Victoria Bridge, Montreal, QC, 1858-59. William Notman. McCord Museum, gift of Mrs. Henry W. Hill, N-0000.392.2.2

« Montréal – Scènes en face de l’hôtel-de-ville, par les anti-vaccinateurs, dans la soirée du 28 septembre », Le Monde illustré, vol. 2, no 76, 17 octobre 1885, p. 185. BAnQ

The recent smallpox epidemic in Montreal – vaccinating American-bound passengers on a train of the Grand Trunk Railway, 1883. Osler Library Prints Collection, OPF000001

Montreal’s Night-Mayor on his Ghostly Rounds (Dedicated to the Board of Health), 1875. McCord Museum, M992X.5.82.