Bakasun Vjekoslav
Acta Med Hist Adriat. 2009;7(1):91-100.
When a healthcare professional sticks to one area of activity, such as protection of human environment, for his entire career, he must leave an indelible mark on his colleagues and local population. Dr Ante Svalba was this kind of a man; he was a physician specialised in hygiene, who persisted in his commitment to improve public health in the wide Rijeka area for nearly sixty active years. He was a true field worker and tireless educator dedicated to improving health culture in all age groups, but especially in schoolchildren. For decades, and nearly to the day he died, he was active in Red Cross work. Ante Svalba was born in Rijeka, and completed primary and secondary school in Rijeka and Susak, respectively. He graduated from the School of Medicine in Zagreb in 1927. For three years he worked at the School of Public Health in Zagreb, and between 1931 and 1942 he was town physician of Susak, until he was interned in Italy with his family. When Italy capitulated he went to Bari and joined anti-fascist resistance. In a place called Grumo he set up a hospital and a medical corps school of the National Liberation Army of Yugoslavia. Having returned to Rijeka, he performed a number of healthcare public offices, of which sanitation inspection was the longest lasting. When he retired in 1965, he took up a position of the head of Hygiene and Epidemiology Department of the Community Health Centre of Opatija until 1972.
当一名医疗保健专业人员在其整个职业生涯中专注于一个活动领域，比如人类环境保护时，他必定会在同事和当地民众心中留下不可磨灭的印记。安特·斯瓦尔巴博士就是这样一个人；他是一名卫生学专家，在近60年的活跃职业生涯中一直执着于改善里耶卡广大地区的公共卫生状况。他是一位真正的实地工作者和孜孜不倦的教育者，致力于提升所有年龄段人群的健康文化素养，尤其是学童的。几十年来，直到他去世前夕，他一直积极投身于红十字会工作。安特·斯瓦尔巴出生于里耶卡，分别在里耶卡和苏萨克完成了小学和中学学业。1927年，他毕业于萨格勒布医学院。他在萨格勒布公共卫生学院工作了三年，1931年至1942年期间担任苏萨克的城镇医生，直到他和家人被关押在意大利。意大利投降后，他前往巴里并加入了反法西斯抵抗组织。在一个叫格鲁莫的地方，他建立了一家医院和南斯拉夫人民解放军的一所医疗队学校。回到里耶卡后，他担任了多个医疗保健公职，其中卫生检查工作持续时间最长。1965年退休后，他一直担任奥帕蒂亚社区卫生中心卫生与流行病学部主任，直到1972年。
