Abstract
My introduction to Martha Eliot came early in my career in Public Health. It was in the summer of 1936, shortly after I had joined the staff of the Montana State Board of Health as Maternal and Child Health Director. The effects of the depression were still being felt, multiplied by eastern Montana's eighth year of drouth. There were no crops, cattle were dying for lack of feed, and the temperatures soared in the 100's. A telephone call soon came from Washington. It was Dr. Eliot of the Children's Bureau asking how the children were far ing in the eastern counties. She informed me that Dr. Doris Murray of the Children's Bureau staff would arrive the following week to help me do a survey.
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