Catharine Grace Loch, Royal Red Cross, Senior Lady Superintendent Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India : a memoir / edited by A.F. Bradshaw.

  • Loch, Catharine Grace, 1854-1904.
Date:
1905
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Credit: Catharine Grace Loch, Royal Red Cross, Senior Lady Superintendent Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India : a memoir / edited by A.F. Bradshaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t888] selected TO GO TO INDIA India.. . . Once the scheme was to be tried she was filled with desire to join in it. . . . Much as she loved ‘ Barths and was beloved by those who worked with her, she was more than willing when the time came, to undertake another and what she considered then a more important work, which she felt competent to take charge of, and for which she was prepared to risk all she held dear to hei at the time. . . . ‘To go to India/ she said, ‘had been the wish of her life, and to go as a pioneer of a great and good work stimulated all her vig’our and courage to be part of it, whatever might happen.’ She added. It must and it will succeed j nothing which is so much wanted could fail.^ Tlius actuated, Miss Loch communicated with the India Office, offering her services, and was selected to be one of the two Lady Superintendents cliarged with the task of inaugurating in India a system of skilled nursing in the hospitals of the British troops. To work under the direction of the two, were appointed eight Nursing Sisters, one of them being her devoted friend Miss R. A. Betty, thence- forward a nearly lifelong associate. The severance of Miss Loch's connexion with St. Bartholomew’s Hospital was marked bv the presentation to her of an illuminated address of farewell, signed by Mr. Morrant Baker’s past and present House Surgeons, and of a set of books ‘ from the Staff, Students, and Nurses of Darker Ward Feb. 9, 1888. She felt keenly the parting, and ever after retained lively and affectionate remembrance