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Show WOMAN PHYSICIAN . WILL SPEAKER Dr. Caroline Hedeer of ChU cago to Make Address J.rOGAN Jan. 5. tr. Caroline Hedger of Chicago, a physician of the Elisabeth McCormlck memorial fund, will be the principal speaker at the women's sessions ses-sions of the farmers' roundup and house, keepers' conference, which convenes at the Ttah Agricultural college from January Jan-uary 10 to 15, according to Mrs. Rena B. May cock. In charge of ths women's work. Dr. Hedger will have charge of the work In home health and nursing and will pay particular attention to child nutrition.. She is remarkably well prepared pre-pared to conduct this work, according i to Mrs. Maycock. who eays: "Or. Hed-; Hed-; ger has had many years' experience as 1 a physician In Chicago 'and hss made a specialty of work with children. She I lived In the University of Chicago settlement set-tlement for a number of years, in the stockyards district, working utnong the foreign element, and made there an extensive ex-tensive study of school children. After experience in the settlement, she worked as school physician under the Chicago health department, and In that capacity, and also as a member of the board of infant in-fant welfare society, was influential In Rutting on the baby saving campaign eld In Chicago some years bo. When the Elizabeth McCormkk memorial fund In 1909 included the 'work for sick babies' baby tents in Its range of activities. activi-ties. Ir. Hedger was appointed executive execu-tive office to the foint committee representing rep-resenting the infant welfare forces of the city. The buby tents were pioneers in the infant welfare movement, which has since spread over the country. Since her connection with the Klixabeth Mc-( Mc-( ormick memorial fund as Us medical director she has devoted mu;h of her time to the work on child welfare. In the summer of 1919 she spent some Urn taking work under It. W. R. p. Kmer-son Kmer-son of Hoston. who baa done more than any other person in the work of bring, ing up to grade the malnourished children chil-dren of the United State. On her return re-turn to Chicago lr. Hedger began the work of starting nutrition classes in the schools of Chicago. "Before the United States entered the world war. Dr. Hedger was sent by the Chicago Women's club to Belgium to assist in the fight against the typhoid epidemic which was ravaging the country. coun-try. This work proved to be to a large extent among the children and was made possible by the gift of $50M worth of 1 antityphoid serum from the t LlndSan- I 1 Gardner laboratory. "Dr. Hedger is a member of the Medical Med-ical flociety of Chicago and a director of the American Child Hygiene association, asso-ciation, which organisation she represented repre-sented abroad at one of their interna tional congresses." |