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Highlights
- Clara Maass graduated from Newark German Hospital in 1895 and became a head nurse there early in 1898.
- At the time of the Spanish-American War, as a "contract" nurse, she worked in Jacksonville, Florida; Savannah, Georgia; and Santiago, Cuba, caring for soldiers stricken with typhoid and malaria.
- She later volunteered to serve in the Philippines, where she nursed for seven months until she became ill from dengue and was sent home.
- In Havana, Cuba, as part of a research project, she volunteered to be bitten by a mosquito thought to be carrying yellow fever.
- After recuperating from a mild case of the disease, she volunteered to be bitten again; she died ten days later.
- On June 19, 1952, the Newark German Hospital where she had trained and worked was renamed the Clara Maass Memorial Hospital (now Clara Maass Medical Center). In 1976, the U.S. Postal Service issued a stamp commemorating the centenary of Clara Maass's birth.
 Related Web Sites
- ANA Hall of Fame: Clara Maass
- Clara Maass: History
- Clara Louise Maass
- Clara Maass
- Their Stamp on History: Clara Maass
 Related Reading
Guinther, Leopoldine. "A Nurse Among the Heroes of the Yellow Fever Conquest." American Journal of Nursing 32, no. 2 (February 1932): 173-76.
Herrmann, Eleanor Krohn. "Clara Louise Maass: Heroine or Martyr of Public Health?" Public Health Nursing 2, no. 1 (March 1985): 51-57.
Samson, Julie. "Clara Maass: A Nurse Who Gave Her Life So That Others Could Live." Imprint (April-May 1990): 81-89.
Tengbom, Mildred. No Greater Love: The Gripping Story of Nurse Clara Maass. St. Louis, Mo.: Concordia Publishing House, 1978. [Available at Amazon.com]
Cover illustration by Ruth N. Keenan, from Clara Maass: A Nurse, a Hospital, a Spirit, copyright © 1968, Rae.
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