Jehangir Hormusjee Ruttonjee

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JP (1880–1960) () was an Indian

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philanthropist in

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. He is famous for founding the Ruttonjee Sanatoria, and helped in the establishment of the Hong Kong Anti-Tuberculosis Association.

Biography

Ruttonjee was born in 1880 in

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to Hormusjee Ruttonjee and Dina Ruttonjee, and came to Hong Kong in 1892 to join his father. Ruttonjee studied at St. Joseph's College on

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, joining his father's business after graduation. He founded a brewery in 1931, and sold it to San Miguel before opening another in 1948 in

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. Ruttonjee lived just along the

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from Homi Villa, which he owned, and is now the

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. Ruttonjee donated a great deal of money to build Ruttonjee Sanatorium (now

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) to fight against

tuberculosis Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is a contagious disease usually caused by ''Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can al ...

. His concerns about an epidemic of tuberculosis in the 1940s, during the Japanese occupation, which claimed the life of his daughter in 1943, led him to found the Hong Kong Anti-Tuberculosis Association (now the Hong Kong Tuberculosis, Chest and Heart Diseases Association) in 1948.History
Hong Kong Tuberculosis, Chest and Heart Diseases Association, Accessed 23 June 2007 Ruttonjee died in 1960 in Hong Kong. His son, Dhun Jehangir Ruttonjee, who also carried on his philanthropic work, was a member of the

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in the 1960s.

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Hong Kong philanthropists Hong Kong businesspeople 1880 births 1960 deaths Hong Kong people of Parsi descent Parsi people from Mumbai 20th-century Indian philanthropists People from British India People from British Hong Kong Commanders_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire {{HongKong-business-bio-stub

Biography

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