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Frances Allen De Ford

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Frances Allen De Ford · Civil Rights & Human Rights

What

A pioneering physician in the industrial Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, Frances Allen de Ford's work led to a decrease in malarial infection.

When

5 April 1855

Biography

Frances Allen De Ford is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — A pioneering physician in the industrial Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, Frances Allen de Ford's work led to a decrease in malarial infection.

How & why

A pioneering physician in the industrial Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, Frances Allen de Ford's work led to a decrease in malarial infection. That is how the Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women, the scholarly reference published by the Jewish Women's Archive, opens its entry on her, written by Erika Piola, and the entry is linked below.

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Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Erika Piola

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A pioneering physician in the industrial Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, Frances Allen de Ford's work led to a decrease in malarial infection.

1855

Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Erika Piola