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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    1889] is, but so many o£ them die ofP, it just seems as if nothing would keep them alive. About July 5 she had to go up to Murree for a few days for change after a short attack of fever. On the 17th she arrived at Simla as guest of General Chesney, the Military Member of Council, and Mrs. Chesney, and during part of her stay spent some days with Sir Frederick and Lady E-oberts, with whom and with General Chesney she had much discussion respecting the present and future of the Nursing Service. A curious circumstance came to her notice in July. Some people said to her: ‘ AVe have just seen your brother; he must be your brother, he is so exactly like you! ’ I found that he is a Mr. Brandreth (her mother's name) and it is true he is exactly like me; he is young and very little, we might almost dress in each other’s clothes. Aug. 17th found her back in Rawal Pindi and on the 29th she went up to Murree for a turn of duty in the camp at Kuldana, and by the 23rd of October had returned to her head-quarters in the plains. Several orders came detaching Sisters singly here and there to nurse individual patients, including one with puerperal fever at Murree. This last summons caused us some indignation as wc