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Influential Nurse Featured in Spring Magazine
Celebrate spring and Women's History Month with the new issue of the Wisconsin Magazine of History. Inside you'll learn about nurse Theta Mead (pictured here), Lincoln County's first public health nurse, who served as the face of public health in Wisconsin from 1917 to 1921 in a featured story by Joan Jensen. In "The World of Theta Mead, County Nurse: Private and Public Health Care in Rural Wisconsin, 1900-1922," author Jensen profiles one of the new women of the Progressive Era dedicated to creating a public health policy that took the needs of rural people seriously.
Mead's duties as nurse included providing health supervision to schools, assisting the superintendent of the poor, instructing on the prevention of tuberculosis and other communicable diseases, investigating delinquency, enforcing child labor laws, investigating crippled children, and giving health instructions to the general public. Mead was one of the few nurses willing to forgo the adventure of wartime nursing to devote herself fully to health issues on the home front, and spent much of her adult life, before her untimely death from ovarian cancer, advocating for the importance of county nurses and clinics to the public health and welfare of Wisconsin's rural people.
Other Stories You'll Find in the Spring Issue
"Wisconsin's Flying Trees: The Plywood Industry's Contribution to World War II," by Sara Witter Connor, explores the important role played by the plywood industry in supplying the technology and materials to construct some of the most formidable aircraft in the world.
The story of a unique fundraiser created to benefit the victims of the horrendous tornado that tore through New Richmond, Wisconsin, in 1899 is told in Dennis Pajot's "The Greatest Baseball Game Ever Played Anywhere."
And, in "Wisconsin's Historic Windmills," author John Zimm looks at the beauty and technological wizardry behind Wisconsin's windmills, from the first Dutch models and Frank Lloyd Wright's "Romeo and Juliet" windmill at Wright's Taliesin to modern wind farms.
Finally, don't miss your sneak peek at the newly revised and updated book, The Flavor of Wisconsin: An Informal History of Food and Eating in the Badger State, from the Wisconsin Historical Society Press.
Magazine of History a Member Benefit
The Wisconsin Magazine of History is a benefit of Society membership. Individual issues are available through our online store and at bookstores around the state. Don't miss an issue! Sign up for membership today!
:: Posted March 12, 2009
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