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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    1890] HOLIDAY HOMES NOT NEEDED 22.—It is quite settled that we shall not have to reside in the St. Denys Home at Murree while on duty in the hills. Is not that a thankful blessing! Dr. Bradshaw has been really very nice about it, and every- body agrees that it would not do, which is satisfactory. Probably we shall be put into a small bungalow ad- joining the hospital, and this will do very well of course. March 1.—I believe Govemment originally stipulated as a condition of their officially sending out nurses that certain ^Hornes in the Hills ^ should be built and main- tained by private subscription, as holiday homes for us when sick or on leave. Well, that sounds practicable enough, but it was an unfortunate mistake, because it led to one or two expensive houses at Murree and else- where being bought and furnished. But we do not need them, because during the summer we have always been sent up to the hills, not on leave but to work there, and the Home at Murree being in the centre of the station is quite out of reach of any work whatever ; also we have made friends and when we go on leave we want to go and stay with them. With regard to sick leave : only twice during the two years has a Sister gone there for a week^s sick leave, but if the Home had not existed I have no doubt some othei ariangement could have been made. March 18.—Yesterday Betty and I nearly ended our days, and smashed up my dog-cart: we were driving a shying pony, which shied violently on meeting some camels while we were on a narrow bridge. Fortunately an accident did not actually occur, but we were for the moment in real danger.