Anne Bahlke

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Anne Bahlke
A young white woman with fair hair in a bobbed style, in an oval frame
Anne Bahlke, from the 1926 yearbook of Goucher College
Born
Anne Magdalen Bahlke

May 9, 1903
Baltimore, Maryland
DiedAugust 7, 1986
Albany, New York
Occupation(s)Physician, medical researcher, public health official

Anne Magdalen Bahlke (May 9, 1903 – August 7, 1986) was an American physician, medical researcher, and public health official.

Early life and education[edit]

Anne Magdalen Bahlke was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of Alexander W. Bahlke and Ella Gertrude Clautice Bahlke. She was raised in Baltimore by her widowed mother. She graduated from Goucher College in 1926. She earned her medical degree at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1936.[1][2] She pursued further training in epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.[3] She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.[4]

Career[edit]

Bahlke was a medical consultant in the New York State Department of Health's Division of Communicable Diseases in 1940s.[5][6] in 1950 she became assistant director,[7] then director, of the department's Bureau of Medical Rehabilitation,[8] at a time when the state's services for disabled adults and children were rapidly expanding, under new legislation at the state and national levels.[9][10] She retired in 1973.[4]

Publications[edit]

  • "Epidemic Influenza: A Comparison of Clinical Observation in a Major and a Minor Epidemic" (1933, with James A. Doull)[11]
  • "Epidemiology of Pneumococcus Pneumonia" (1943, with Edward S. Rogers and Albert H. Harris)[12]
  • "Treatment of preparalytic poliomyelitis with gamma globulin" (1945, with James E. Perkins)[13]
  • "Exposed Dental Pulp as a Portal of Entry for the Virus of Poliomyelitis" (1947, with S. Finn and Robert F. Korns)[14]
  • "Effect of ultra-violet irradiation of classrooms on spread of measles in large rural central schools" (1947, with James E. Perkins and Hilda Freeman Silverman)[15]
  • "Effect of Ultra-Violet Irradiation of Classrooms on Spread of Mumps and Chickenpox in Large Rural Central Schools —A Progress Report" (1949, with Hilda Freeman Silverman and Hollis S. Ingraham)[16]
  • "Rehabilitation of the Handicapped: The Place of the Official Agency" (1953)[17]
  • "Development of a State-Wide Program for the Care of Children with Long-Term Illness" (1965, with Edward R. Shlesinger and Alan R. Cohen)[18]

Personal life[edit]

Bahlke died in 1986, in Albany, New York, aged 83 years.[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Female Graduates · Celebrating the Philanthropy of Mary Elizabeth Garrett". Exhibits: The Sheridan Libraries and Museums, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
  2. ^ Johns Hopkins University, "Conferring of Degrees" (June 9, 1936): 10.
  3. ^ "News from the Field: Epidemiologists-in-Training". American Journal of Public Health. 30: 1385. November 1940. doi:10.2105/AJPH.30.11.1383.
  4. ^ a b c "Dr. Anne M. Bahlke; Worked in New York". The Baltimore Sun. 1986-08-10. p. 78. Retrieved 2022-05-18 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "More Schools Shut as Influenza Rises". The New York Times. 1945-12-19. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
  6. ^ "State Suggests Christmas Plays be Called Off". Times Herald. 1945-12-20. p. 5. Retrieved 2022-05-18 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Ultra-Violet Lamps May Bar Epidemics". The New York Times. 1950-07-14. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
  8. ^ "Named to State Medical Post". The New York Times. 1950-12-07. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
  9. ^ The National Institute of Dental Research Directory of U.S. Facilities Providing Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate Services. U.S. National Institutes of Health. 1969.
  10. ^ Rusk, Howard A. (1964-03-08). "More Aid for Children; State's Wider Definition of Handicapped Includes All the Chronically Malformed". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-05-18.
  11. ^ Doull, James A.; Bahlke, Anne M. (May 1933). "Epidemic Influenza: A Comparison of Clinical Observations in a Major and a Minor Epidemic". American Journal of Epidemiology. 17 (3): 562–580. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a117925. ISSN 1476-6256.
  12. ^ Rogers, Edward S.; Bahlke, Anne M.; Harris, Albert H. (June 1943). "Epidemiology of Pneumococcus Pneumonia: A Study, Including Bacteriological and Serological Observations in a Rural Community during a Season of High Incidence". American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health. 33 (6): 671–681. doi:10.2105/AJPH.33.6.671. ISSN 0002-9572. PMC 1527496. PMID 18015820.
  13. ^ Bahlke, Anne M.; Perkins, J. E. (1945-12-22). "Treatment of preparalytic poliomyelitis with gamma globulin". Journal of the American Medical Association. 129 (17): 1146–1150. doi:10.1001/jama.1945.02860510012003. ISSN 0002-9955. PMID 21006156.
  14. ^ Finn, S.; Korns, R. F.; Bahlke, Anne M. (1947-09-01). "Exposed Dental Pulp as a Portal of Entry for the Virus of Poliomyelitis". American Journal of Epidemiology. 46 (2): 177–184. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a119161. ISSN 0002-9262. PMID 20262043.
  15. ^ Perkins, J. E.; Bahlke, A. M.; Silverman, H. F. (May 1947). "Effect of ultra-violet irradiation of classrooms on spread of measels in large rural central schools". American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health. 37 (5): 529–537. doi:10.2105/AJPH.37.5.529. ISSN 0002-9572. PMID 20297445.
  16. ^ Bahlke, Anne M.; Freeman Silverman, Hilda; Ingraham, Hollis S. (October 1949). "Effect of Ultra-Violet Irradiation of Classrooms on Spread of Mumps and Chickenpox in Large Rural Central Schools —A Progress Report". American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health. 39 (10): 1321–1330. doi:10.2105/AJPH.39.10.1321. ISSN 0002-9572. PMC 1528333. PMID 18141127.
  17. ^ Bahlke, Anne M. (May 1953). "Rehabilitation of the Handicapped: The Place of the Official Agency". Medical Clinics of North America. 37 (3): 933–941. doi:10.1016/S0025-7125(16)35012-X. PMID 13086019.
  18. ^ Schlesinger, Edward R.; Bahlke, Anne M.; Cohen, Alan R (July 1965). "Development of a State-Wide Program for the Care of Children with Long-Term Illness". American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health. 55 (7): 973–977. doi:10.2105/AJPH.55.7.973. ISSN 0002-9572. PMC 1256365. PMID 14312317.