Dr. John G. Fitzgerald Hygiene School Chief
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Dr. John Gerald FitzGerald, International authority on public health and preventive medicine, died Thursday at the Toronto General Hospital, in his fifty-eighth year. He was director of the School of Hygiene and Connaught Libraries, University of Toronto. He had been ill since Sunday.
[Headshot of Dr. FitzGerald]
For some years a member of the health committee of the League of Nations at Geneva, he was one of its four public health assessors. He was dean of the faculty of medicine in the University of Toronto from 1932 to 1936.
In 1934 Dr. FitzGerald visited Ceylon and, India as a member of a Rockefeller Foundation group making a survey of the cause and prevention of hook worm.
Some years ago he did research work at the Pastuer Institutes in Paris and Brussels, and in 1927 was the Canadian representative at an International rabies convention in Paris. At the University of Toronto he created a research field in anti- toxins and hygiene.
Born at Drayton, Ont., he was a graduate of the University of Toronto in medicine, receiving the degree of M.B. in 1903 and that of M.D. in 1920, and LL.D. from Queen's University In 1925. He served in the last war with the rank of major, working in a mobile laboratory attached to the British Fifth Army as advisor in pathology. He had been associated with the University of Toronto since 1913 as a lecturer.
He was an Anglican and a member of the York Club and author of papers on medical subjects.
Surviving are his widow, Edna Leonard FitzGerald; one daughter, Mrs. Mary Leonard Whitley, and one son, John Desmond Leonard FitzGerald. He lived at 18 Prince Arthur Avenue.