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Hannah Emily Reid (January 19, 1870 – May 27, 1955) was a Canadian physician. She was the Chief of Anaesthesia at Toronto’s Women's College Hospital from 1926-1931.

Early life and education

Hannah Emily Reid was born near Orangeville, Ontario on January 19, 1870. From an early age she had an interest in teaching– after completing her studies at Orangeville High School in 1891 she received her Second-Class Teacher’s Certificate and began teaching at several schools in Toronto.

She later discovered her interest in medicine and joined the Ontario Medical College for Women. Hannah and her sister, Minerva Reid “were amongst the last women to graduate from the Ontario Medical College for Women before it closed in 1905”. While she attended the Ontario Medical College for Women in Toronto until its closure, she completed her medical degree at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine in 1905. After graduating, Reid travelled to northern Manitoba on medical assignment. Following that, she spent 1906 as an intern at the New England Hospital for Women and Children.

Career

In 1912, Reid opened her own practice in Toronto, which focused on anesthesia and obstetrics. Two years later, she began working at Women’s College Hospital in the Department of Anaesthesia. She became Chief of Anaesthesia in 1926, the second woman to hold this position after Margaret McCallum-Johnston. According to the hospital, “or over two decades, the two sisters could often be found working together in the operating rooms of Women’s College Hospital”. During her career at Women’s College Hospital, Hannah was also a member of the hospital’s first Board of Directors.

Reid died in Toronto, Ontario on May 27, 1955. and her sister died in 1957.

External links

• Department of Anesthesia Fonds at the Archives of Women’s College Hospital

References

1. ^ "Dr. Hannah Reid & Dr. Minerva Reid– Sisterhood". Women’s College Hospital Foundation. Archived from the original on 2019-05-07. Retrieved 2021-03-01.
2. ^ "Notes: Reid, Hannah Emily (1870-1955)". Archives of Women's College Hospital.
3. ^ Hacker, Carlotta (1974). The Indomitable Lady Doctors. pp. 119–131.
4. ^ Scrafield-Danby, Constance (12 October 2001). "Wonderful ladies from Dufferin's past". The Midweek Banner; Orangeville, Ont. . p. 14 – via ProQuest.
5. "Early Female Doctors – Peggy Feltmate". 27 March 2020. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
6. ^ Thompson, Dorothy; Kronberg, Jean. "History of the Department of Anaesthesia: Women's College Hospital" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-01-02. Retrieved 2022-01-02.
7. New England Hospital for Women and Children (1922). Annual Report. p. 55.
8. Dhaliwal, Amreet (2018). "Dr. Margaret McCallum-Johnston: Canada's first female anesthesiologist". Canadian Journal of Anesthesia. 65 (9): 1066–1067. doi:10.1007/s12630-018-1142-y. ISSN 0832-610X. PMID 29790119. S2CID 46894454.
9. Shorter, Edward (2013-12-06). Partnership for Excellence: Medicine at the University of Toronto and Academic Hospitals. University of Toronto Press. p. 565. ISBN 978-1-4426-6404-3. Minerva was a younger sister of anesthetist/obstetrician Hannah Reid, with whom she often worked.
10. "Museum Matters: The John Reid Family- II". Orangeville Citizen. July 29, 2010. Archived from the original on 19 February 2013. Retrieved January 2, 2022.
11. Townsend, Wayne (2006-11-21). Orangeville: The Heart of Dufferin County. Dundurn. p. 218. ISBN 978-1-897045-18-3. ...and Hannah Reid (18701955), born on Mono Township. Early Canadian female doctors they were founders of Women's College Hospital in Toronto.
12. "Dr Hannah Emily Reid". Find a Grave.
13. "Women doctors". The Windsor Star. 1957-05-01. p. 4. Retrieved 2022-04-18.

• Canadian anesthesiologists
• 1870 births
• 1955 deaths
• Women anesthesiologists
• 20th-century Canadian physicians
• 20th-century Canadian women physicians