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

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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$1890] RAIN BRINGS BETTER HEALTH and a bungalow close by taken instead. Well, every- body at Sialkot felt so strongly on the subject that a station subscription was got up, and over 300 rupees obtained to pay for six or eight months' rent of the bungalow. It was very jolly of the station. Jan. 12.—Pretty busy ; two big wards and the officers are quite enough. We have an officer now with a badly fractured thigh-bone. Jan. 20.—We have still been as busy as ever; the last two days I have been in the hospital all day. Something must be done about Sisters having been sometimes called on to work during a holiday; but at the same time it is much more difficult here than at home where nursing help can always be found with a short delay. Here there is often no help to be had for love or money, and when it is a case of life or death, that is awfully hard, and then the Simla authorities have a strong wish that we should be generally useful! Jan. 27.—We are suddenly much less busy. People have been saying for months that as soon as the (winter) rain came the place would be more healthy, and oddly enough, whether it is the rain or a coincidence I do not know, but the moment the rain came down we have had no fresh cases in, and the others are all more or less convalescent, so much so that we have done no night duty for two or three nights, and I have left the day to the other two. Feb. 5.—Miss Loch mentions having had a long conversation with Lady Hoberts on the subject of the Military Nursing Sisters working in con- junction with the Religious Sisters of St. Denys$