Papers, 1909-1979

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Papers, 1909-1979

Correspondence, memorial papers, diary, etc., of Martha May Eliot, pediatrician and child health expert.

.25 linear ft.; (1/2 file box)

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Massachusetts. Committee for Children and Youth

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Eliot, Martha M. (Martha May), 1891-1978

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Martha May Eliot (April 7, 1891 – February 14, 1978), was a foremost pediatrician and specialist in public health, an assistant director for WHO, and an architect of New Deal and postwar programs for maternal and child health. Her first important research, community studies of rickets in New Haven, Connecticut, and Puerto Rico, explored issues at the heart of social medicine. Together with Edwards A. Park, her research established that public health measures (dietary supplementation with vitamin...

William Morris, 1907-

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