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As announced in NATURE of January 25, p. 114, Mrs. Neville-Rolfe has been awarded the Snow Medal by the American Social Hygiene Association. The medal is given annually for distinguished services to humanity. This was the first time the medal has been awarded outside the United States, and the only occasion on which it has been given to a woman. Mrs. Neville-Rolfe has been not without honour in her own country, but her qualities of courage and service have been, perhaps, more clearly seen by those interested in the promotion of social welfare in the great American republic. She is the eldest daughter of the late Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Cecil Burney, Bart.; her husband is Commander Clive Neville-Rolfe, who is at present on active service; while her brother is Commander Sir Dennistoun Burney, Bart, also on active and special service. Courage, therefore, comes naturally to her, and during the War of 1914–18 she saw where certain work was necessary, where no one else was doing it. It was not easy or popular work, and brought a good deal of prejudice to those who formed what is now known as the British Social Hygiene Council to fight one of the most serious and insidious forms of illness which, during and after the War of 1914–18, created considerable havoc both among individuals and homes in Great Britain.
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Mrs. C. Neville-Rolfe, O.B.E.: Snow Medallist. Nature 147, 261 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147261b0
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