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Statistician, American Social Hygiene Association.
National Industrial Conference Board reseacher
Editor of Public Health Nursing monthly magazine for 7 years retired to Cape Cod in 1950?
Mary Edwards Shaw, ASHA staff member for fifteen
years and for the last seven editor of the NOPHN magazine, Public
Health Nursing, retired to private life on December 31, 1949, and
has been succeeded as editor by Hedwig Cohen
(from Journal of Social Hygiene Vol. 36 January, 1950 No. 1 )
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“Medicine: Quack quizz
A man in a slouch hat sidled up to a drugstore counter, cast a furtive look about him and beckoned to the druggist. "Say, Bud, I have a young man assisting me on the road. ... He tells me that he has a burning sensation, a sort of continual discharge. . . ."
"Sure," answered the druggist, "he's got gonorrhea. I can give you an ointment which will fix it up."
In 1,150 drugstores of 35 U. S. cities last fall, this same scene was enacted by the same man. He had no sick "friend": he was pussyfooting for the U. S. Public Health Service and Manhattan's American Social Hygiene Association. His mission: to find out whether three years of Government education on venereal disease had really "taken" or whether quacks still hold the field. Last week Social Hygienists Mary Stockton Edwards and Paul Michael Kinsie published the results of the traveling investigator. Gloomy were their conclusions. Some 5,000,000 venereal disease victims, said they, out of a total of 18.000,000, still run to quacks for help each year. Interesting statistics:
> In drugstores "62% [of the clerks] diagnosed the disease and offered to sell remedies. ... 31% did not attempt to diagnose the case but . . . were willing to sell bottled remedies. Only 7¢ of the whole number refused to diagnose the disease or sell remedies. . . .
> "[Over 1,000] men in all walks of life were interviewed in the street, in parks, in poolrooms. . . . Each was asked: 'Where do you suggest I go to get fixed up for a ----(colloquial for venereal disease)?' Of these, 65.4% advised a drugstore remedy or self-treatment. . . . 31.4% said, 'Go to a good doctor or ---- clinic.' The remainder, 3.2%, did not know." Comparing these figures with those of a similar survey made six years ago, Hygienists Edwards and Kinsie concluded that the public knew less about good treatment for venereal disease in 1939 than it did in 1933. Further, "there is some indication that the sale of . . . 'remedies' is now even larger in volume."
> To rescue quack victims, the social hygienists suggested that: 1) anti-quackery laws be passed in the 33 States which have none; 2) existing laws be strongly enforced; 3) the U. S. Public Health Service spend more money* on counter-propaganda telling venereal disease sufferers ex actly "where to go for advice, diagnosis and treatment.''
Venereal disease appropriations for 1940 totaled $5,000,000. President Roosevelt's 1941 budget cuts this sum to $3,000,000.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,849200,00.html#ixzz0cVZ9u8ta”
(From Time Magazine Monday January 29, 1940)
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Mary Stockton’s Edwards carreer seems to have focused on sexually transmitted diseases, in particular syphilis and gonorrhea.
“- A survey of venereal disease prevalence in Detroit' by Walter M Brunet and Mary S Edwards, United States Public Health Service, 1927”
“ Edwards, Mary S., Author of “Illegal and unethical paratices in the diagosis and treatment of syphilis and gonorrhea, by Mary S. Edwards and Paul M. Kinsie.” Published in 1940)”
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Mary S. Edwards, B.A., Rm 922, 50 West 50 St., New York, N.Y., Statistician and Assistant Director, American Social Hygiene Assn. (Applicants for Membership in American Public Health Association 1940)
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1940 Census - Mary S Edwards (46) and Elizabeth E. Schafer (41) are living on west 53rd street, New York City, NY. Mary is a statistician in public health work, Elizabeth a correspondent secretary for Time Inc. Elizabeth is recorded as the partner of Mary. They lived in the same place in 1935. Mary earns $3600 and Elizabeth earns $1529. Rent is $82.50.
1943 Journal of Social Hygiene mentions Mrs. Mary Edwards Shaw, so the marriage must have occurred between 1940 and 1943.
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1942 May 16- Marriage to James Edwin Shaw announced in “The Key Kappa Kappa Gamma” issue of April 1947
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Social Security Claims Index - 1955
Name:
Mary Edwards Shaw
[Mary Edwards Edwards]
Gender:
Female
Race:
White
Birth Date:
12 Nov 1893
Birth Place:
Chicago, Illinois
Father:
Edward J Edwards
Mother:
Mary Jordan
Type of Claim:
Original SSN.
Notes:
Dec 1955: Name listed as MARY EDWARDS SHAW
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IN MEMORIUM
CHI- UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
Mary Edwards Shaw July 5 1960
(from The Key of Kappa Kappa Gamma - Winter 1961)
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The following Find-a-Grave memorials might be for our James Edwin Shaw and Mary Stockton Edwards. These two burials are in the same location, but it isn’t clear if they are actually next to each other or just in the same general area. They are included here for future research.
JAMES EDWIN SHAW
Birth:
unknown
Death:
Aug., 1959
Burial:
Green-Wood Cemetery
Brooklyn
Kings County (Brooklyn)
New York, USA
Plot: Lot 16616, Section 149
Created by: T.V.F.T.H.
Record added: Aug 25, 2010
Find A Grave Memorial# 57667911
MARY E SHAW
Birth:
unknown
Death:
Jul., 1960
Burial:
Green-Wood Cemetery
Brooklyn
Kings County (Brooklyn)
New York, USA
Plot: Lot 16616, Section 149
Created by: T.V.F.T.H.
Record added: Aug 25, 2010
Find A Grave Memorial# 57668019
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