Records of the Children's Bureau. 1908 - 2003. Speeches and Articles of Bureau Chiefs
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Oettinger, Katherine Brownell, 1903-1997
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The elder daughter of Charles Leonard and Eunice (Bennet) Brownell, Katherine Brownell Oettinger was born in Nyack, New York, on September 24, 1903. Following the death of her father, the family moved to New York City, where Oettinger attended grammar school and Hunter College High School. She graduated from Smith College with honors in sociology and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1925; in 1926 she received a master's degree from the Smith College School for Social Work, having completed her f...
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...
