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Octavia Hall Smillie

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Smillie taught music in Colorado as a young woman. She was head dietitian at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital when she started the hospital's nutrition clinic in 1921. She was elected to a two-year term as president of the American Dietetic Association in 1922, succeeding
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In 1919, Octavia Hall became the second wife of widowed physician and Harvard Medical School professor
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In her later years, Smillie was active in the Massachusetts Dietetic Association, trained
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in 1958, and ran a sheep farm. She died in 1970, at the age of 81, in Vermont.
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Annual Report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital for the Years ...
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President, American Dietetic Association (1922–1924)
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Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
American Dietetic Association
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Colorado College
Mary deGarmo Bryan
Red Cross
World War II
Wilson George Smillie
Newfane, Vermont


"Mrs. Wilson G. Smillie"
Nugget
Annual Report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital for the Years ...
"American Dietetic Association Meets"
"All Ready for Dietitians' Meeting"
"National President"
"President Leaves"
"A Greeting from our President"
"Miss Vance Named Head of Dietetic Association"
"Dietitian Aides Class Held at 'Y""
"Dr. Wilson G. Smillie, a Leader In Public Health, Is Dead at 84"
"Some recollections of Wilson G. Smillie, M.D. (1886-1971)"
doi
10.2105/AJPH.62.3.431
PMC
1530100
PMID
4551726

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