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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    i888] DUTY IN THE MURHEE HILLS It is all very well to nurse thoroughly a few dozen men in one hospital, but that only benefits the indi- viduals, and one sees sueh mad things being done all round. I don t think it is a bad thing for officers to be treated in the Ward, and to actually see and hear what goes on, for they have not the least idea how much work the nurses do (and they take care to tell everybody afterwards, in fact I think they get well pumped as to what goes on), and they are mutely astonished every time. Even at Barths I have often heard a student say that he considered that a few weeks spent in a ward as a patient was one of the best parts of his training; it opened his eyes as to what was necessary, and as to what could be done for sick people. July weather Miss Loch found intensely oppres- sive, not quite so hot as before, only 110 in the shade, but feeling hotter because of the damp, like a steam bath. She had been asked to write some letters to the Nursing Record about the nursing work in India. Early in August she went with some Sisters for a turn of duty in the Murree hills and encamped on the Topa spur, which she described as being a most lovely spot. Unfortunately cholera was prevalent around and the soldiers and English visitors to Murree were largely affected. In com- pliance with their earnest desire the Sisters were allowed to nurse cases of that disease. The Government having decided to send an ex- pedition to the Black Mountain, Miss Loch applied to be sent with it, and on September 12 she was