CAREER FORSAKEN
Because sho is getting married, Dr. Julia Marcella Browne, London's first woman medical officer of heal'/n, is resigning her £I4OO-a-year post with Stepnoy Borough Council, states a London writer. ' She has been Stepney's medical officer for three years. Thirty men who competed with her for the post were disappointed. From 1920 to 1980 Dr. Browno was medical officer for maternity and child welfare in tho borough and AssistantMedical Officer of Health. Cold statistics of maternal mortality pay a warm tribute to her work, for in 1920 tho deaths per thousand births were 90; last they were down to 61.6. During the time she has been working in Stepney she has been the friend and guide of hundreds of mothers. Sho was appointed Medical Officer of Health at a salary of £I4OO per annum, plus £IOO per annum for tho duties of chief administrative tuberculosis officer.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21533, 3 July 1933, Page 3
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