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Helen Cordelia was born on September 14, 1857 in Stockton, Minnesota, United States, the daughter of Celintha T. Gates Putnam and Herbert Asa Putnam, who were among the first settlers to cross the Mississippi in 1855. Herbert Putnam ran a general store, and his wife organized a Methodist Sunday school. Little is known of Helen Putnam's girlhood.
Helen Cordelia received her early education in a one-room school. In 1878 she graduated from Vassar College and continued her studies at Harvard University's Sargent School of Physical Training. She received the Doctor of Medicine from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1889.
Helen worked at the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston in 1890-1891. Before receiving her medical degree, Putnam was director of physical education at Vassar (1883 - 1890), where she gave physical tests to the students and prescribed corrective exercises and sports. From 1885 to 1888 she was vice-president of the American Association for the Advancement of Physical Education.
Putnam began to practice medicine in 1892, at Providence, Rhode Island. In her lecture "Supervision of School Gymnastics by Medical Specialists" (1893) she emphasized the necessity for medicine and education to work side by side because of the "oneness of mental and corporal life. " She worked in the National Council of the Playground Association of America. In 1894 and 1897, Putnam was vice-president of the American Academy of Medicine.
As the United States delegate to the International Conference on School Hygiene in London in 1907, she became interested in infant mortality, and after her election as president of the academy in 1908 she inaugurated a conference on that subject the following year. From this meeting grew the American Association for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality, which published Mother and Child (later Child Health Bulletin).
She participated in the National Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher Associations. Her articles appeared in Child Welfare Magazine (1909 - 1912) and were later published in School Janitors, Mothers and Health (1913). Therefore, Putnam also served on the National Education Association's Committee on Racial Well-Being and on the board of managers of the Rhode Island Women's Suffrage Association.
She retired in 1935 and thereafter lived a secluded life in Providence, Rhode Island. An inheritance of $300, 000 and interest on a trust fund of $2 million, which she received at the age of eighty-two, did not change her way of life. A Helen Putnam fellowship for advanced research was established in 1944 at Radcliffe College.
She died in Providence.
Helen Cordelia Putnam participated in establishment of the American Association for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality, her vital organizational role was cited in the final issue of Child Health Bulletin (1935). She also contributed generously to the National Recreation Association. Her will provided for a generous contribution to Butler Hospital in Providence. She made other substantial bequests to the Rhode Island School of Design and, in memory of the great pioneer woman physician Marie Zakrzewski, to Western Reserve University.
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Putnam thought, that the main object of physical training was exercise, which must be of much choice and variety in order to prevent derangements of the chest, to encourage visceral and muscular development, and to promote proportional growth of circulatory and nervous systems. Putnam believed there should be a physician and a dentist in every school. Dust, common drinking cups, crowding, poor lighting, lack of fresh air, and overheated rooms were other targets of her criticism of school conditions. She also believed that janitors should have to pass an examination in "housewifery. " Sex education, gardening, and outdoor and vacation schools received Putnam's aggressive support. Putnam was aware that child health depended upon the cooperation of parents, especially mothers. She also maintained that the standard of health for schools should be the same as for homes.
Quotations: "Mothers are responsible for knowing the environment is a safe one. So are fathers. If an unhealthful one, the fact school authorities keep it so does not lessen parents' duties - each parent - to prevent it. The duties of parenthood cannot be shuffled off on paid or elected officials. "
Putnam never married.
