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From delivering babies to recordkeeping, Mendocino County women did it all
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From delivering babies to recordkeeping, Mendocino County women did it all
FORMAL MEDICAL CARE on the Mendocino coast was sparse in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, due to few doctors living here. Women often acted as nurse, doctor and pharmacist, treating their families as best as they could before calling for a physician. Doctors could take hours to arrive by horse or foot. In 1906, the Fort Bragg Advocate commented on this (with a sarcastic twist), writing “Every mother is a trained nurse, with the…
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