Article: COLORADO'S ANGEL OF MEDICINE FEISTY SABIN FOUGHT TO IMPROVE STATE'S HEALTH.(Local)

Byline: Carla Crowder News Staff Writer

Colorado was a sanitation nightmare in the years before World War II.

Babies were dying from impure milk. Tuberculosis was killing their parents. Beautiful, mountainous Colorado ranked among the least healthy states in the country in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Then Dr. Florence Rena Sabin moved back home.

Already one of the country's top medical scientists, this small, serious woman reformed Colorado's public health system, persuading the legislature that the state's 71-year-old health laws were dangerously outdated.

Sabin was even older than those health laws when she started her ...

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