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Manuscript (4 pages), with covering letter, by Edith [Thompson] of her experiences as a nursing sister working at Ikkādu Hospital in the 1920s. Gives overview of staffing in 1922, language problems, comparison of conditions here with those in England (particularly sanitation), transportation and travel issues, improvements by 1926 and increases in staff. Dated 8 July [19]39.
Manuscript (7 pages) entitled 'Ikkādu Hospital 1907-1937' probably written by Dr Edith Tucker in 1939. Gives overview of hospital and staff in 1907, problems of recruiting nurses - local school girls trained, families assisted with patient care, 1922 expansion to hospital, hospital recognized as training school for midwifery, comments on Dr McDougall, further expansion in 1936, influenza outbreak of 1918, German naval shelling of Madras [Chennai] in 1915 and cholera outbreak, bed issues, lighting and water problems, training of Indian doctors and in particular Lucy Deoavaram.
Extracts from the [Madras] District Synod minutes relating to the building and development of Ikkādu Hospital between 1891 and 1898, ?1939.
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Dr Edith Tucker (1874-1956) worked as missionary doctor for the women's section of the (Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society at Ikkādu Hospital, in their Madras District, India, from 1907 to 1937.
Edith Mary Thompson (b 1894) worked as a nurse for the women's section of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society at Ikkādu Hospital, in their Madras District, India, from 1922 to 1928. |
