Kate Newcomb, Angel On Snowshoes

Kate Pelham (1896-1956) was born in Kansas in 1886 and raised in upstate New York. Kate graduated from medical school at age 31 and practiced for a short time before marrying Bill Newcomb. She moved to northern Wisconsin in 1926 because clean air became increasingly important to her ailing husband's health and where she soon earned the nickname Angel of Woodruff'. The town of Woodruff, Wisconsin had a population of 7, 000 people with no hospital, so Kate became a doctor who made house calls. She never charged or turned away a patient and is said to have delivered over 4000 babies. Dr. Kate Newcomb impacted the whole nation through various ways: she believed in getting all children the proper vaccinations, made people aware of the dumping of sewage into lakes, solved the milk problem that was occurring by realizing that the glass bottles had not been properly sterilized and taught the first natural childbirth class in the United States. The most significant impact that Dr. Kate Newcomb had left was left not only because of her medical practices but because she was a female

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