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[Identification of item], in the Sally Lucas Jean papers #4290, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Transferred from the Health Sciences Library, UNC-CH, in 1981. HSL had received this material from Sally Lucas Jean of New York, N.Y., in 1967.

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• American Child Health Association. Health Education Division.
• Belgium--Social conditions.
• Child Health Organization of America.
• China--Social conditions.
• Health education--United States--History--20th century.
• Indians of North America--Health and hygiene--History--20th century.
• Japan--Social conditions.
• Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.
• Japanese Americans--Health and hygiene--History--20th century.
• Jean, Sally Lucas, 1878-1971.
• Panama--Social conditions.
• Philippines--Social conditions.
• Public health nurses--Maryland.
• Public health--Societies, etc.
• United States--Social conditions.
• Virgin Islands--Social conditions.

Pioneer health educator Sally Lucas Jean was born in Towson, Maryland, 18 June 1878, the daughter of George B. and Emilie Watkins (Selby) Jean. She graduated from the Maryland Homeopathic Hospital Training School for Nurses in 1898 and served as an army nurse during the Spanish-American War. From 1914 to 1917, she was a social health worker at the Locust Point School in Baltimore. Jean worked with many organizations concerned with public health, health education, and child health, and served as director of the Child Health Organization of America, 1918 to 1923, and of the Health Education Division of the American Child Health Association, 1923 to 1924.

As a consultant in health education begining in 1924, she advised on health programs in Belgium, the Philippines, China, Japan, the Panama Canal Zone, the Republic of Panama, and the Virgin Islands. Jean served as a supervisor of health education for the United States Indian Service, 1934 to 1935, and as a consultant in health education for the University of Denver summer school, 1942; the Colorado River War Relocation Authority, Poston, Arizona, 1942 to 1943; and the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, 1943 to 1951.

Jean was a member of the advisory education group of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and of many professional health education organizations. She was the author of numerous articles and pamphlets on public health and health education and co-author of "Spending the Day in China, Japan, and the Philippines." Jean died 5 July 1971.

This collection comprises the professional papers of Jean, pioneer public health educator. It includes correspondence with others in the profession, Jean's speeches and writings, and reports on public health and health education prepared by Jean as a consultant to business and professional groups in the United States, China, Japan, the Philippines, Belgium, Panama, and the Virgin Islands. There is extensive material reflecting her work with American Indians, 1935; with Japanese-Americans at the Poston, Arizona, relocation center during World War II; as a public health nurse in Maryland; as director of the Child Health Organization of America and of the Health Education Division of the CHO's successor, the American Child Health Association. Also included are reports and other material concerning the numerous national and international public health organizations of which Jean was a member; and clippings, pamphlets, and other material about Jean and her work and about public health and health education in general.

This collection was transferred from the UNC-CH Health Sciences Library, which retains Jean's professional library. A copy of the inventory of Health Science Library's Jean collection, and copies of correspondence with Jean about its acquisition are filed in folders 36a and 36b. Although the SHC staff refoldered some material, folder headings and contents generally reflect those at acquisition. It is unclear whether the headings were established by Jean or by the Health Sciences Library before transfer. The SHC staff added a few headings for material that was unlabeled or unfoldered and arranged folders alphabetically.

• P-4290/1-5
• PA-4290/1-4