Mary Riggs Noble

Mary Riggs Noble (1872 – 1965) was an American physician, hospital administrator, public health educator, and state official.

[12] In 1917 and 1918, during World War I, she served on the YWCA's war council, and gave a series of talks on "sex hygiene" and "social morality" in southern and western cities, including Nashville,[13] Salt Lake City,[14] Tulsa, Austin,[15] Topeka,[16] and Wichita.

[17] "Her message will be most timely on account of the present emotional strain to which men and women are subjected," commented a Nashville newspaper.

[18] She reported on the effort to regulate midwifery in Pennsylvania,[19] and made reducing newborn and maternal mortality priorities of the state's health department.

[23] She opposed "baby parades" as "deplorable exploitation of childhood" in a 1932 lecture at her alma mater, the Woman's Medical College in Philadelphia.

Seven white women (three seated, four standing) posed for a group photograph. They are all wearing long skirts and large hats. Several are wearing suit jackets.
American women missionaries nicknamed the "Jubilee Troupe", speaking at missionary society celebrations in 1911. Front row: Florence Miller, Helen Barrett Montgomery , Jennie V. Hughes ; Back row: Mary Riggs Noble, Etta Doane Marden , Mrs. W. T. Elmore, and Mary E. Carleton.