Women's Missionary Association: Bangladesh/East Pakistan

Minutes and correspondence, mission building plans.


Date(s) of creation: 1920 - 1950
Level: Sub-collection
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id PCE.WMA.07
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
callnumber PCE/WMA/07
callnumber_txt PCE/WMA/07
callnumber-sort PCE/WMA/07
prefix_number 07
title Women's Missionary Association: Bangladesh/East Pakistan
scb_date_creation 1920 - 1950
scb_level Sub-collection
level_sort 7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
format Archive
scb_admin_history Work among women in the Rajshahi district was first carried out by the wife of Dr Donald Morison, the first PCE missionary who arrived in 1878. The first WMA woman missionary arrived in 1880, followed by two others shortly afterwards. A higher-grade girls' school was opened in 1880 and zenana visitations were also carried out. Women's medical work was begun at Naogaon where the main mission hospital had transferred around 1909. A dispensary for women was set up at Rajshahi by Dr Ella Morison, the daughter of Donald Morison. Later a small women's hospital was built but remained closed after 1937.
description Minutes and correspondence, mission building plans.
scb_access_status Open
language English
language_search English
hierarchy_top_id_raw PCE
hierarchy_sequence PCE.00WMA.0007