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Josephine Letitia Denny Fairfield CBE (* 10. März 1885 in Melbourne, Australien; † 1. Februar 1978 in London, England) war eine britische Ärztin, Anwältin, Feministin und Sanitäterin im Ersten Weltkrieg.
Josephine Letitia Denny Fairfield CBE (10 March 1885 – 1 February 1978) was a medical doctor, a lawyer, a war-worker, and the first ever female Chief Medical Officer for London. She received a CBE for her outstanding achievements in medicine following her contributions in World War I, despite initially having been rejected by the ...
Dr Letitia Fairfield (1885–1978) was a doctor, lawyer, feminist, a medic in the First World War, and the first ever female Chief Medical Officer for London.
- Emily Louise Bailey
- 2020
Dr Letitia Fairfield CBE. Born in Melbourne in 1885 to an Anglo-Irish journalist father and Scottish musician mother, Fairfield excelled in her medical studies at the Edinburgh Medical College for Women and graduated with a MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1911.
Letitia Fairfield (1885-1978) was a pioneering medical doctor, lawyer and women’s rights campaigner, with an interest in parapsychology.
Letitia became the chief Medical Officer, with overall responsibility for the medical care of these women. Letitia Fairfield in 1917 (© Wellcome Collection) As the Second World War began, the War Office sought her out and she was appointed Senior Woman Medical Officer of the Armed Forces.
This collection of correspondence and personal papers of Letitia Fairfield, a prominent Catholic doctor and lawyer, deal in the main with subject of compulsory sterilisation, in particular in relation to the Nazi eugenics policy; and to the views of the Catholic Church on the subject.
