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Show WOMAN DOCTOR IN THE WAR ZONE Dr. Mary Crawford of Brooklyn is one of the few woman doctors to go to the war zone in Europe. Mary Crawford wanted to be something more than a trained nurse, so Bhe spent seven years at Cornell, being graduated with the medical class of "oughty-seven." One day Miss Crawford read something in the newspapers about vacancies at the Williamsburg hospital. hos-pital. She sent for application blanks. They read: "Any one desiring the Williamsburg Williams-burg hospital, etc. " She filled out the blank and, in some way, the "Mary" of her name passed unnoticed. But when she presented pre-sented herself the hospital authorities were dumfounded. They had a woman on their hands for nearly two years. But out of 35 applicants she had passed highest of all and the hospital was game. It is said that its reception recep-tion of Doctor Crawford was splendid. She was the first woman ever to act on the staff of the hospital and, despitej the unwritten ban against woman practitioners at large in the medical world,! she was never made to feel it there. She was not only the first woman doc-i tor at Williamsburg, but the first to ride an ambulance in Brooklyn. |