Jane Addams' Emergency Breast Surgery (1923)

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St. Luke's International Hospital (Tokyo)

Webb, Ulysses Robert (1882-1947)

Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore to Jane Addams, June 25, 1923

Mary Rozet Smith to Stanley Ross Linn, June 26, 1923

Thomas J. Walsh to Mary Rozet Smith, June 26, 1923

Electra Pauline Swartz to Jane Addams, ca. June 26, 1923

Fudeko Watanabe Ishii to Jane Addams, ca. June 26, 1923

Mary Rozet Smith to Esther Margaret Linn Hulbert, June 26-27, 1923

Amelia Sears to Jane Addams, June 27, 1923

Henry T. Reinach to Jane Addams, June 27, 1923

Stanley Ross Linn to Jane Addams, June 27, 1923

Hull House Residents to Jane Addams, June 27, 1923

Louise de Koven Bowen to Mary Rozet Smith, June 27, 1923

Mary Zimmerman to Jane Addams, June 27, 1923

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, June 28, 1923

Anna Marcet Haldeman-Julius to Jane Addams, June 28, 1923

Anne Ellers Bunker to Jane Addams, June 29, 1923

Bedřich Štěpánek to Jane Addams, June 30, 1923

Susan Hostetter Mackay to Jane Addams, July 1, 1923

Julia Clifford Lathrop to Jane Addams, July 1, 1923

Charles Richard Crane and Cornelia Workman Smith Crane to Jane Addams, July 2, 1923

Lucy Biddle Lewis to Jane Addams, July 5, 1923

Alice Freeman Firman to Jane Addams, July 8, 1923

Ito Ozawa Imanishi to Mary Rozet Smith, July 8, 1923

Jane Addams Linn to Jane Addams, July 10, 1923

Stanley Ross Linn to Jane Addams, July 10, 1923

Harriet Eliza Merriam Van Der Vaart to Jane Addams, July 13, 1923

Emma Cornelia Haigh Fisher to Mary Rozet Smith, July 16, 1923

Gertrude Willcox Weakley to Jane Addams, July 17, 1923

Charles Columbus Arnold to Jane Addams and Mary Rozet Smith, July 18, 1923

Sarah Weber Addams Young to Jane Addams, July 21, 1923

Jane Addams to Stanley Ross Linn, July 25, 1923

Marguerite Gobat to Jane Addams, July 25, 1923

Vilma Glücklich to Jane Addams, July 25, 1923

Jane Addams to Stanley Ross Linn, July 25, 1923

Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs to Jane Addams, July 26, 1923

Annie Barrows Shepley Omori to Jane Addams, August 1923

Marguerite Gobat to Jane Addams, August 1, 1923

Emily Hobhouse to Jane Addams, August 4, 1923

Jane Addams to Susan Mattie Hostetter Mackay, August 4, 1923

Frederick Ferdinand Moore to Susan Ballard, August 6, 1923

Jane Addams to Emily Greene Balch, August 6, 1923

Jane Addams to Henrietta Octavia Rowland Barnett, August 7, 1923 (fragment)

Korekiyo Takahashi to Jane Addams, August 8, 1923

Frederick Ferdinand Moore to Mary Rozet Smith, August 13, 1923

Tokutaro Kubo to Jane Addams, August 18, 1923

Vilma Glücklich to Jane Addams, August 27, 1923

Jane Addams to Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs, October 3, 1923

What Jane Addams Found in the East, July 7, 1924

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Founding Date

1923-06-26

Ending Date

1923-06-27

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While on tour in China in mid-June, Addams suffered a rickshaw accident and bruised her right arm and side. She cut her trip short and traveled to Osaka, still feeling pain and fatigued. She was diagnosed with a tumor. She cancelled all plans for appearances and was admitted to St. Luke's Hospital in Tokyo on June 26. Believing that the tumor was cancerous, doctors urged her to submit to an immediate full mastecdomy. Dr. Tessler Fell was involved in her care and surgeon Dr. Tokutaro Kubo performed the operation on June 27, assisted by Dr. Ulysses Robert Webb. Alice Hamilton traveled from San Francisco to join Addams in Japan. Mary Rozet Smith, who was traveling with Addams kept family and friends informed to Addams' progress.

The tumor was found to be benign and the surgery was successful. Doctors advised Addams to recuperate for a month before sailing back to the United States. She checked out of the hospital on July 24 and recuperated at the Kanaya Hotel in Nikko. Her recovery was slow, due to her age and general exhaustion from the months of international travel. On August 17 she returned to Tokyo and was the guest of honor at a large reception hosted by the Japanese branch of the WILPF. She sailed for the United States on August 23, via the President Cleveland, stopping in Honolulu, before reaching San Francisco on August 30.

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Picture: Chicago Tribune, June 27, 1923, p. 4.

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Hajo, Cathy Moran

Bibliography and Links

Jane Addams Given Ovation in Japan, Salt Lake Telegram, August 17, 1923, p. 2.

Jane Addams Ready for Knife in Tokio, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 26, 1923, p. 4.

Jane Addams Sails on the President Cleveland, Honolulu Star Bulletin, August 17, 1923, p. 1.

Jane Addams Suffering From Fall in Tokyo, Akron Beacon, June 26, 1923, p. 13.

Jane Addams Very Ill, St. Joseph press-Gazette, June 28, 1923, p. 4.

Jane Addams is Very Ill in Japan Hospital, Eugene Guard, June 26, 1923, p. 1.

Jane Addams' Condition Good After Operation, Chicago Tribune, June 28, 1923, p. 7.

Jane Addams, Honolulu, Hawaii, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1900-1959

Citation

“Jane Addams' Emergency Breast Surgery (1923),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed June 5, 2023, http://mail.digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/22115.