Viewing page 2 of 6

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

Dr. Matilda A. Evans (1870s-1935),ca. 1930.  As a student at Schofield Normal and Industrial School in Aiken, Matilda Evans became a protegee of the school's Quaker founder and leader, Miss Martha Schofield, who encouraged her to go on to Oberlin College and ultimately to the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, where she received an M.D. degree in 1987, the only blank in her class.  That year she moved to Columbia and set up practice as a physician and surgeon.  She treated both blacks and whites, established the first black hospital in Columbia, and founded the South Carolina Good Health Association to spread the word of the importance of good health practices and sanitation.  In 1930 she opened a free clinic where poor black children could be treated and vaccinated.  She introduced medical examinations into the public schools of Columbia.  Although she never married, she adopted and reared eight children.  

[[image]]