Proposal to Discharge.

Date: 1931

Series: S 900 - Florida State Board of Health Subject files, 1875-1975.

Midwifery.

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SUMMARY OF MIDWIVES DELIVERING HIGHEST NUMBER OF BABIES IN FLORIDA (upper 10)
No deliveries Name and address Age Nation- Literacy Professional Ed.
Total L.B. S.B. ality
44 42 2 Mrs. Diamande Urga, 42 Italian Reads & Diploma Midwifery
Tampa writes University of
It. & Eng. Naples
DOCTORS REPORT: Recommended to be licensed without further training by local
health officer and another physician.
46 45 1 Janie Jones 51 Negro Reads well Taught by doctors
Pensacola writes none
DOCTORS REPORT: None secured.
48 44 4 Florence C. Smith 49 Negro Reads a Taught by midwife
Miami little,
write name
only
DOCTORS REPORT: Recommended by one doctor to be licensed without further training,
with remark that she was "very good". Another recommended that she be given
further training by the state or county nurse.
63 49 14 Charity Taylor 55 Negro Reads a Taught by doctors
Pensacola little,
does not
write
DOCTORS REPORT: Recommended to not be licensed by two doctors one saying "She is too
old and fragile", the other saying, "Very good woman, splendid character but decrepit
by age, sight is bad." Two other physicians recommended that she be licensed without
further training, as she could not "take in" any more instruction.
69 59 10 Annie J. Cox 56 Negro Read & write Taught by doctors
Jacksonville well
DOCTORS REPORT: Recommended by two doctors as follows: "This party does very good work
and is very careful along all lines." And "She brings me specimens of urine to be
tested and watches the mother during the prenatal period most carefully."
74 72 2 Miss Carmelina 31 Italian Read & write Diploma Midwifery
Lazzara, Tampa Italian well University of
Palermo.
DOCTORS REPORT: Recommended to be licensed without further training by City Health
Officer, and another physician.
76 68 8 Johnny Mae Barnes 35 Negro Read & write Studies medicine for
Jacksonville well 2 yrs. Howard
University, Washing-
ton, D.C.
DOCTORS REPORT: Recommended by one doctor as good material for a scholarship in
midwifery, also remarked "I have always found her to be careful and interested
in her work."

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