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Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, OBE (29 May 1883 – 2 June 1943) was a Canadian obstetrician, best known for delivering and caring for the Dionne quintuplets, the first quintuplets known to survive early infancy.
Jan 20, 2008 · Allan Roy Dafoe, physician (b at Madoc, Ont 29 Mar 1883; d at North Bay, Ont 2 June 1943). A shy recluse with an indifferent academic record, he achieved worldwide fame for his successful delivery on 28 May 1934 of the Dionne Quintuplets.
May 27, 2013 · Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, who arrived during the third birth, gave simple instructions: keep them warm, feed them water from an eyedropper, bathe them in olive oil, and leave them alone. The latter was probably the most sensible advice, for over-handling would assuredly have over-stressed the babies.
Ostensibly a nursery where the children could thrive under the care of Allan Roy Dafoe, the doctor who had performed their delivery, Quintland (a pun courtesy of the term quintuplet) in practice was a human zoo.
- Meg Matthias
Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe is credited with ensuring the successful live birth of the quintuplets. Originally, he diagnosed Elzire with a "fetal abnormality".
The survival of all five infants, delivered prematurely of a pre-eclamptic mother during a home birth, was one of the great medical wonders of the 20th century. Let’s revisit perinatal health care, 1930s style, and then explore the circumstances surrounding the birth of the Dionne quintuplets.
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The attending physician, Allan Roy Dafoe (d. 1941), also became a celebrity. In 1935 Ontario made the quintuplets wards of the government, and Dafoe became their primary caretaker. A hospital was built for them to live in, and “Quintland,” as it was known, became a popular tourist destination.…
