Margaret Heagarty, Champion for Children's Health in Harlem, Dies at 88
Briefly

Dr. Margaret Heagarty was familiar enough with poverty and disease when she went to work in Harlem in 1978.She had grown up in the hardscrabble coal fields of West Virginia, where her father was a physician to miners and their families.She had also been separated from her parents, like many children in Harlem, and placed in an orphanage.
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