Sayer, Ettie (1875–1923)

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Sayer, Ettie (1875–1923)

English physician. Born Aug 28, 1875; died July 7, 1923.

Became a house surgeon for Tunbridge Eye and Ear Hospital (1899); served as a physician to Cowley Mission to Mohammedan and Kaffer Women; provided first aid lectures as assistant medical officer for the London County Council; served as honorary medical officer to Society for Distressed Gentlefolks; worked as a consulting physician to National Society for the Welfare of the Feebleminded; was a Cape Colonial government medical officer for plague (1901); visited concentration camps and the lepers on Robben Island, South Africa; employed as an International Safety Immigration Officer medical officer; joined the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

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