Harriet L. Hartley

Harriet Louise Hargrave Hartley (November 14, 1874 – October 18, 1951), also written as Harriett L. Hartley, was an American physician, public health official, and college professor. The Harriet L. Hartley Conservation Area in Maine occupies land she once owned, and is named for her.

Harriet L. Hartley
A woman with her hair in an updo, wearing a high-collared dress with a cameo at her throat; the outer laer of the dress is satiny, and embellished with heavy cord embroidery
Harriet L. Hartley, from a 1911 publication
Born
Harriet Louise Hargrave

November 14, 1874
Philadelphia
DiedOctober 18, 1951
Philadelphia
Occupation(s)Physician, public health official, college professor

Early life and education

Harriet Hargrave was born in Philadelphia in 1874, the daughter of WIlliam Henry Columbus Hargrave and Ella Louise Esler Hargrave. She completed her medical degree at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1903.

Career

Hartley was clinical professor of surgery[1][2] and associate professor in gynecology at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, and professor of preventive medicine at Temple University Medical School.[3] She also taught first aid classes women women in the community.[4] In 1915, she raised funds to send American women doctors and nurses to open a hospital for women and children affected by World War I.[5]

In 1917 Hartley became Chief of the Philadelphia Health Department’s Bureau of Child Hygiene.[6] She addressed the American Child Hygiene Association's 1918 annual meeting in Chicago to describe the toll of the Spanish flu pandemic on Philadelphia's children.[7][8] In 1944 she was one of the speakers in a radio symposium for National Negro Health Week.[9] She remained as head of the Bureau of Child Hygiene through the 1930s and 1940s.[10][11][12]

Hartley was president of the Pennsylvania Public Health Association from 1947 to 1948.[13][14] She was a member of the Babies' Welfare Association,[15] the Philadelphia Obstetrical Society, the Philadelphia County Medical Society,[16] and the American Medical Association.[17]

Publications
  • "A Plea for More Prenatal Work" (1917)[18]
  • "Infant Mortality Among the Colored Population" (1918)[19]
  • "The City Nurse as an Agent for the Prevention of Infant Mortality" (1919)[7]
  • "The Baby in the Epidemic" (1919)[20]
  • "A Milk Survey" (1920)[21]
  • "Prenatal Care from the Viewpoint of the City Health Center" (1920)[21]

Personal life and legacy

Harriet Hargrave married twice. She married physician F. Walter Brierly in 1897.[22][23] He died from appendicitis in 1899.[24] She married her second husband, anesthesiologist Arthur Hartley, in 1902. The Hartleys spent their summers in Belfast, Maine beginning in the 1920s.[25] She was a widow when she died in Philadelphia in 1951, at the age of 77.[3] The Harriet L. Hartley Conservation Area on Maine's Penobscot Bay is named in her memory.[26]

References
  1. Schafer, James A. (2013-12-26). The Business of Private Medical Practice: Doctors, Specialization, and Urban Change in Philadelphia, 1900-1940. Rutgers University Press. pp. 43–44, 52. ISBN 978-0-8135-6176-9.
  2. "Women Doctors to Offer Services". Chattanooga Daily Times. 1915-06-06. p. 23. Retrieved 2022-10-13 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Dr. Harriett L. Hartley, Hygiene Leader, Dies". Evansville Press. 1951-10-19. p. 11. Retrieved 2022-10-13 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Medical Lectures for Women". Daily Telegram. 1916-03-02. p. 6. Retrieved 2022-10-13 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "American Women will Care for War Babies". The Tampa Tribune. 1915-06-06. p. 25. Retrieved 2022-10-13 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Wider Powers for Child Hygiene Bureau Urged". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1920-03-02. p. 3. Retrieved 2022-10-13 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. Hartley, Harriet L. “The City Nurse as an Agent for the Prevention of Infant Mortality” Transactions of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the American Child Hygiene Association (Baltimore: Franklin Printing Company, 1919), 122-126.
  8. Connolly, Cynthia; Greco, Rosemarie B. (June 23, 2021). "Children and the Influenza Pandemics of 1918-1919 and 2020-2021". The Field Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
  9. Turner, John P. (July–September 1944). "National Negro Health Week -- A Radio Broadcast". National Negro Health News. 12 (3): 9.
  10. "Mayor Will Probe Scarlet Fever Rise". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1942-02-22. p. 26. Retrieved 2022-10-13 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. "Woman's Club, Drexel Hill". Delaware County Daily Times. 1938-05-12. p. 34. Retrieved 2022-10-13 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. "Inoculation Drive is Opened for Pre-School Age Children". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1946-06-04. p. 3. Retrieved 2022-10-13 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. "New Pa. Health President Is Installed". The Indiana Gazette. 1947-11-04. p. 8. Retrieved 2022-10-13 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. "The News in Brief". Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph. 1947-11-03. p. 3. Retrieved 2022-10-13 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. "More Babies' Lives are Saved by City". Evening Public Ledger. 1918-05-14. p. 11. Retrieved 2022-10-13 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. "Officers of the Philadelphia County Medical Society". Weekly Roster and Medical Digest. 8 (39). June 15, 1918.
  17. "Dr. Henry H. Doan". Health Bulletin: 125. 1917.
  18. Hartley, Harriet L. (December 1917). "A Plea for More Prenatal Work". Monthly Bulletin of the Department of Public Health and Charities of the City of Philadelphia. 2 (12): 180–182.
  19. Hartley, Harriet L. (September 1918). "Infant Mortality Among the Colored Population". Monthly Bulletin of the Department of Public Health and Charities of the City of Philadelphia. 3 (9): 131–133.
  20. Hartley, Harriet L. (March 1919). "The Baby in the Epidemic". Monthly Bulletin of the Department of Public Health and Charities of the City of Philadelphia. 4 (3): 44–45.
  21. Hartley, Harriet L. (January 1920). "'A Milk Survey' and 'Prenatal Care'". Monthly Bulletin of the Department of Public Health of the City of Philadelphia. 5 (1): 2–5.
  22. "Marriage Licenses". The Philadelphia Times. 1897-06-30. p. 7. Retrieved 2022-10-13 – via Newspapers.com.
  23. Glasgow, William Melancthon. The Geneva Book (Westbrook Publishing 1908): 341.
  24. "Dr. Brierly Dead". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1899-06-19. p. 2. Retrieved 2022-10-13 – via Newspapers.com.
  25. "Stove Explodes in Belfast Home". The Bangor Daily News. 1937-08-17. p. 19. Retrieved 2022-10-13 – via Newspapers.com.
  26. "About Us". Friends of Harriet L. Hartley Conservation Area. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
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