T. G. McGann

Terence Joseph McGann (1843 to 1936) was an Irish-born surgeon who spent his career in the princely state of Mysore in India. Born at Whitemount in Kilnaboy, County Clare, on 15 April 1843, he served as senior surgeon to the Government of Mysore from 1885 to 1896 and was later Darbar Surgeon, the official doctor to the Maharaja of Mysore and his family, in 1905 and 1906. He urged the government to improve village sanitation and water supply and to keep manure and waste out of streets and yards, arguing that such measures would lessen fevers, bowel complaints and cholera. At the Shimoga hospital maintained by the Mysore Government he worked for more than three decades, concentrating on the control of malaria, which was widespread in the district in the nineteenth century. He retired in 1908 and went back to the United Kingdom, but returned to Mysore and stayed there until his death on 22 November 1936.