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• W2023179960 abstract "Sara Jospehine Baker, MD, DrPH, was the first director of New York’s Bureau of Child Hygiene and an instrumental force in child and maternal health in the United States. A lesbian and a feminist, Baker was also a suffragist and a member of the Heterodoxy Club, a radical discussion group made up of more than 100 women, where she was known as “Dr Joe.”1 To succeed in the male-dominated world of public health administration, she minimized her femininity by wearing masculine-tailored suits and joked that colleagues sometimes forgot that she was a woman. Whether her sex was accounted for or set aside, it is doubtless that Baker faced gender discrimination and the same obstacles to a high-profile career that confronted women physicians throughout the medical profession in the early 20th century.2In contrast to many of her colleagues’ emphasis on laboratory-based public health, Baker focused on preventive health measures and the social context of disease. Her work with poor mothers and children in the immigrant communities of New York City had a dramatic impact on maternal and child mortality rates and became a model for cities across the country as well as the United States Children’s Bureau, established in 1912.Sara Josephine Baker was born in 1873 in Poughkeepsie, New York, to Daniel Mosher Baker, a lawyer, and Jenny Harwood Brown. In her autobiography, Fighting for Life,3 Baker recalled a happy childhood and a good and supportive relationship with both her parents. Her mother was one of the first graduates of Vassar College, and Baker was raised with the expectation that she would also attend the college, but her plans changed when her father and brother died suddenly. Newly responsible for the family’s finances, she gave up her scholarship and applied to medical school instead. In 1894, Baker enrolled at the Woman’s Medical College of the New York Infirmary, originally founded by pioneering physician Elizabeth Blackwell and her sister Emily Blackwell. While associating with the first generation of women to attend medical school, Baker was introduced to some powerful female role models, including faculty member Mary Putnam Jacobi. After graduating in 1898, Baker negotiated a year’s intern-ship at the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston, where she worked at an outpatient clinic serving some of the city’s poorest residents. She developed a keen interest in the connection between poverty and ill health, which led her to a commitment to social medicine that would shape the rest of her career.Baker opened a private practice in New York in 1899 with a friend she had met during her internship, but the 2 women struggled to make just $185 in the first year. To help cover costs, they also worked as medical examiners for the New York Life Insurance Company, paving the way for women physicians to work in the insurance industry. Baker also worked part time as a medical inspector for the city, where she met key health administration officials. In 1907, Dr Baker was appointed assistant commissioner of health, and managed smallpox vaccination programs and sanitation issues, as well as the notorious case of “Typhoid Mary,” the cook who had unknowingly spread typhoid in the city while working in several New York households.4In 1908, Baker was appointed director of the city’s new Bureau of Child Hygiene, the first such bureau in the United States. Building on her previous work on disease prevention and education, she developed programs on basic hygiene for immigrants living in slum neighborhoods and the Little Mothers Leagues, which trained young girls who were responsible for the care of their siblings (while their parents went out to work) on the basics of infant care. Alongside baby health stations that distributed milk and midwife training and regulation, she created policies that had an enormous impact on maternal and infant mortality. Thirty-five states implemented versions of her school health program. By the time Baker retired in 1923, New York City had the lowest infant mortality rate of any major American city.5(p33)Baker founded the American Child Hygiene Association in 1909 and served as president of the organization in 1917. That same year, she became the first woman to earn a doctorate in public health from the New York University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College (later the New York University School of Medicine). From 1922 to 1924, she served as a member of the Health Committee of the League of Nations and as a consultant on child hygiene to The New York State Department of Health, the US Department of Labor, and the US Public Health Services. Dr Baker wrote 50 journal articles and more than 200 pieces for the popular press about issues in preventive medicine, as well as five books: Healthy Babies (1920),6 Healthy Mothers (1920),7 Healthy Children (1920),8 The Growing Child (1923),9 and Child Hygiene (1925) (extracted here). She retired to New Jersey with her life partner, novelist Ida Wylie, and another woman physician, Louise Pearce, in the mid-1930s, where they shared a house until Baker’s death in 1945." @default.
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