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Puerto Rican black female physician
Josefa Zaratt
Dr. Zaratt in staff portrait of Douglass Hospital
BornMarch 19, 1871
San Juan, Puerto Rico
DiedAugust 4, 1962(1962-08-04) (aged 91)
Bronx, New York, USA
Alma materTufts University School of Medicine (MD)
OccupationDoctor

Josefa Zaratt (also Zarratt) (March 19, 1871 – August 4, 1962) was the first Black woman to graduate from Tufts Medical School. She was one of the early African-American women practicing as a doctor in the United States.

Life

Zaratt was born in 1871 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Zaratt studied at Tufts University School of Medicine, graduating in 1905. She moved back to her home country after graduating, but was denied a medical license in Puerto Rico. She returned to the continental US and passed the examination of the State Board of Registration in Medicine in Massachusetts.

She worked at Douglass Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1910, by 1923 was practicing medicine in Springfield, Massachusetts and in 1932 she lived Boston, Massachusetts.

Zaratt died on August 4, 1962, at Fordham Hospital in the Bronx, New York. aged 91. She was buried at Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum in Greenburgh, New York.

References

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  7. University, Tufts (1906). Annual Report of the President of Tufts College.
  8. "Dr. Grace A. Du Guid. Staff of Douglass Hospital; Dr. Josefa Zarrat. Staff of Douglass Hospital; Rev. Helen A. Mason; Mme. E. Azalia Hackley". NYPL Digital Collections. Retrieved 2020-05-03.
  9. The Southern Workman. Hampton Institute Press. 1923.
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