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April 2002, Vol 92, No. 4 | American Journal of Public Health 565
© 2002 American Public Health Association

IMAGES OF HEALTH

A Dedicated Public Health Nurse

Elizabeth Fee, Theodore M. Brown, Jan Lazarus and Paul Theerman

Elizabeth Fee, Jan Lazarus, and Paul Theerman are with the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. Theodore M. Brown is with the Departments of History and of Community and Preventive Medicine at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Elizabeth Fee, PhD, Building 38, Room 1E21, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894 (e-mail: elizabeth_fee@nlm.nih.gov).


   INTRODUCTION
 
MISS EUGENIA BROUGHTON, a public health nurse with the Berkeley County Health Department of South Carolina, is shown here teaching newborn baby care to a class of pregnant women. Born in 1914, "Miss Genie" never married but devoted herself to the health care and education of people in the sparsely populated rural area around Charleston.

Nurse Broughton received her nursing training and diploma at the Charity Hospital of Savannah, Ga, in 1937. In Summerville, SC, she worked under the auspices of the Reformed Episcopal Church as a "special community nurse." Nurse Broughton walked the dusty roads daily to visit her . . . [Full Text]


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