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Children with disabilities -- Services for -- Kentucky.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

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Mary Holloway Nursing Records

 Collection — 1
Identifier: BCA 0107 SAA 107
Abstract Mary Finley Holloway (later Mrs. R.D. Coffman) obtained her R.N. from Johns Hopkins Medical Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. In the 1930s she traveled to clinics in Eastern Kentucky as the field supervisor of the Kentucky Commission on Crippled Children, and kept notes on the patients seen at clinics serving 40 Kentucky counties. In the mountains she rode a mule to reach the clinics, and sometimes accompanied patients in need of surgery to hospitals in Louisville. In later years, a relative...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1925-1941