“Mayor Behrman asked me to become a member of the Tenement House Commission to help eradicate Tuberculosis in the Vieux Carre district. Then the Anti-Tuberculosis League started their work…and we got the country hospital work started. They were certainly lean days for all who helped in this work.”

“The speech you refer to, I think, is one I made to the Appropriations Committee at Baton Rouge. We went up to get some assistance for the maintenance of the N.O. Hospital and Dispensary. I made the plea that women were given licenses to practice but no hospitals were open to them for clinical work, and that all the women who couldn’t afford to pay for the services of women physicians were obliged to go to the hospitals, where men held the clinics, although the State had licensed women who could do the work. The committee offered to ask for a donation for the Hospital in memory of my father’s work as a compliment to me. This, of course, I deeply appreciated but refused, as it was merely a single donation, and we wanted special legislation that would give us continued assistance. The outcome was a special act and an appropriation of $6,000.00. This, I think has been substantially increased. The last I heard of it was nearer to $20,000.”