Public health pioneers who built services around a population group: Sara Josephine Baker with child and maternal health in New York and Percy Lane Oliver with the first organised volunteer blood donor service in Britain. A person belongs here when the cited article describes the founder of a health service for mothers, children or blood donation. It excludes epidemiologists and disease control leaders.
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Percy Lane Oliver (Wikipedia)
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Percy Lane Oliver (11 April 1878-16 April 1944) was a British civil servant, who is credited with founding the first volunteer blood donation service.
Sara Josephine Baker (Wikipedia)
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Sara Josephine Baker (November 15, 1873, February 22, 1945) was an American physician notable for making contributions to public health, especially in the immigrant communities of New York City. Her fight against the damage that widespread urban poverty and ignorance caused to children, especially newborns, is perhaps her most lasting legacy.
Albert Hustin (Wikipedia)
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he was the first person to successfully practice non-direct blood transfusions with sodium citrate used as an anticoagulant
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