September BAH Short List
September, 26, 1900, Jesse Lazear dies of yellow fever after allowing himself to be bite by a mosquito.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_fever
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_William_Lazear (Jesse Lazear allowed himself to be bitten by yellow fever-infected mosquitoes, and died of the disease at age 34. )
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Finlay (Carlos Finlay is credited with tying yellow fever to mosquitoes)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Reed (Walter Reed headed the commission in Cuba and
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Maass (Clara Maass’s death ended human testing of yellow fever in August of 1901.)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_experimentation_in_the_United_States
September, Hull House started in Chicago, Jane Addams and Starr established Hull House as a settlement house on September 18, 1889
The settlement movement was a reformist social movement, beginning in the 1880s and peaking around the 1920s in England and the US, with a goal of getting the rich and poor in society to live more closely together in an interdependent community. Its main object was the establishment of “settlement houses” in poor urban areas, in which volunteer middle-class “settlement workers” would live, hoping to share knowledge and culture with, and alleviate the poverty of their low-income neighbors. The “settlement houses” provided services such as daycare, education, and healthcare to improve the lives of the poor in these areas.[1] In the US, by 1913 there were 413 settlements in 32 states.[2] (From wikipedia)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlement_house
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Addams Jane Addams became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and is recognized as the founder of the social work profession in the United States.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_House
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September
| Name & Event | Reason important to Secular Humanism | Calendar Month |
| Racheal Carson | Silent Spring is an environmental science book written by Rachel Carson and published by Houghton Mifflin on September 27, 1962 | |
| Jane Addams | Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was a pioneer settlement social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader inwomen’s suffrage and world peace. In an era when presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson identified themselves as reformers and social activists, Addams was one of the most prominent[1] reformers of the Progressive Era. She helped turn the US to issues of concern to mothers, such as the needs of children, public health, and world peace. She said that if women were to be responsible for cleaning up their communities and making them better places to live, they needed the vote to be effective in doing so. Addams became a role model for middle-class women who volunteered to uplift their communities. She is increasingly being recognized as a member of the American pragmatist school of philosophy.[2] In 1931 she became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and is recognized as the founder of the social work profession in the United States Addams followed the example of Toynbee Hall, which was founded in 1885 in the East End of London as a center for social reform. She described Toynbee Hall as “a community of university men” who, while living there, held their recreational clubs and social gatherings at the settlement house…among the poor people and in the same style they would in their own circle.[10] | September, Hull House started in Chicago Addams and Starr established Hull House as a settlement house on September 18, 1889.[11] Nobel Peace Prize 1931; December |
| Yellow fever and mosquitos | Walter Reed, Jesse Lazear, Carlos Finlay After a few months in Quemados, Lazear, together with Walter Reed (1851–1902), James Carroll (1854–1907) and Aristides Agramonte (1869–1931), participated in a commission studying the transmission of yellow fever, the Yellow Fever Board. During his research at Camp Colombia, he confirmed the 1881 hypothesis of Carlos Finlay that mosquitos transmitted this disease. A portion of his study, though, had been conducted on himself: without telling his colleagues, he had allowed himself to be bitten by yellow fever-infected mosquitoes, and died of the disease at age 34. A dormitory at Johns Hopkins University was named after him in honor of his sacrifice, as was a former chemistry building at Washington & Jefferson College, Lazear’s alma mater. | September, 26, 1900, Lazear dies of yellow fever after allowing himself to be bite by a mosquito. |