Public Health

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.

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

Typical 3-trailer nursing station in Grise Fiord, Ellesmere Island, present-day Nunavut, 1970. Photo taken by Dr. Jane Forsey during an elective for her fourth year of medical school. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.850.8

Dogsled outing to a glacier in Grise Fiord, Ellesmere Island, present-day Nunavut, 1970. Photo taken by Dr. Jane Forsey during an elective for her fourth year of medical school. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.850

Dr. Sandy MacPherson (in white), first director, and the Department of Community Health, 1976. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.858

Dr. Sheila Linden at the NDG Clinic overseen by the MGH Community Health Department, c. 1979. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.858.1

Dr. Robert Kinch, left, lecturing at the Third Teaching Hospital in Peking, China, with interpreter Dr. Chang, during the Norman Bethune Visiting Professorship, 1975. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.748

Cover of the first edition of the birth control handbook, published by the Student’s Society of McGill University in 1968. McGill University Archives.

Community Health Department, Planned Parenthood display, 1977. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.858

Community Health Team (DSC), c. 1979. Art & Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Berkovitz Fonds, 2014-0014.04.858.5

Worker holds test-tube of penicillin in front of a bottle containing a surface culture penicillin mold at the Connaught Labs, 1944. Library and Archives Canada, National Film Board of Canada fonds, 3197454. Courtesy Harry Rowed/National Film Board of Canada

Crowded cafeteria at the MGH, 1921. Art and Heritage Centre of the MUHC, Mann Fonds, 2017-0001.04.11

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.

Montreal from Street Railway Power House chimney, QC, 1896. Wm. Notman & Son. McCord Museum, VIEW-2943.

Fond de court dans un quartier défavorisé, 1914. BanQ, Massicotte Albums, MAS A-26-b

John Henry Walker, Family Life, 1850-1885. McCord Museum, Gift of David Ross McCord, M930.50.2.263

Ladies Benevolent Institution, Montreal, QC, 1909. Wm Notman & Son. McCord Museum, II-174417

« 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.

Irish Emigration Engraving showing sign for Quebec, 1851. Library and Archives Canada, MIKAN 2952956.

Goose Village children, Montreal, QC, about 1910. Art Studio. McCord Museum, Gift of Mr. John Stanley Kennedy, MP-1979.131.