Anne Daniel was an American physician and public health reformer who focused on improving living conditions of the tenement population and female prison population in New York City.
Education
Daniel attended the Woman"s Medical College of the New York Infirmary, where she specialized in obstetrics, gynecology, and pediatrics. As a student in New York City, she was exposed to the poverty and illness inherent in tenement life. The connection she saw between health and social environment sparked her interest in public reform.
Career
Foreign over 60 years, Daniel taught and supervised students at the New York Infirmary. She focused especially on educating the tenement population on hygiene, childcare, and preventative medicine. A report she wrote for the Women"s Prison Association of New York in 1886 led to the requirement of prisons to hire female wardens to supervise female prisoners.
Membership
She was a member of the Working Women"s Society and a supporter of the early suffrage movement, but much of her legislative efforts dealt with the female prison population.