Alfredo Vidal y Fuentes

Alfredo Vidal y Fuentes (born July 30, 1863 in Minas , † January 13, 1926 in Montevideo ) was a Uruguayan politician and doctor.

He studied at the Colegio Unión Oriental Democrática , where he successfully completed his doctorate in 1889. He then deepened his studies at the Medical Faculty of the University of Naples. There he was also the consul of Uruguay. Vidal y Fuentes, who belonged to the Partido Colorado , he sat in the 20th and 21st legislative periods from February 15, 1899 to December 16, 1903 as a member of the Minas Department in the Cámara de Representantes . In 1909 he was one of the initiators of a law on the Asistencia Pública Nacional , which was passed on November 10, 1910 in the Uruguayan General Assembly. He was also President of the Consejo Nacional de Higieneand professor in the medical school. He was also a member of the Consejo de la Facultad de Medicina , the National Sports Commission and the Consejo de la Caja de Jubilaciones y Pensiones Civiles . A hospital in the city of Minas also bears his name, as does a street in the capital Lavallejas and in Montevideo.

Publications (excerpt)

Sobre reglamentacion y abolicionismo de la prostitucion (Montevideo: El Siglo Ilustrado, 1925)

Web links

Biography (spanish)
Detailed biography of Augusto Soiza Larrosa (PDF; 1.4 MB) (Spanish)

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Vidal y Fuentes, Alfredo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Uruguayan politician
DATE OF BIRTH	July 30, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH	Minas
DATE OF DEATH	January 13, 1926
Place of death	Montevideo

[1] "Diario de sesiones, spending 3013-3017", Uruguay. Asamblea General. Cámara de Representantes

[2] "Homenaje a la memoria del doctor Alfredo Vidal y Fuentes", p. 6

[3] List of Uruguayan parliamentarians from 1830 to 2005 on www.parlamento.gub.uy ( Memento of October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 7.8 MB)

[4] "Historia de la enfermería en Uruguay", p.50 by Soledad Sánchez Puñales

[5] "Homenaje a la memoria del doctor Alfredo Vidal y Fuentes", p. 60

[6] "Transactions of the seventh Pan American sanitary conference of the American republics: Held in Havana, Cuba, November 5 to 15, 1924", p.267, Pan American Sanitary Bureau

[7] "Historia de la sanidad internacional" by José Saralegui Padrón reference can only be seen in the general google books hit list.

[8] "Women, Feminism and Social Change in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, 1890-1940", p.392 by Asunción Lavrín