Catharine Grace Loch, Royal Red Cross, senior lady superintendent, Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India : a memoir / with an introduction by field-marshal the earl Roberts / compiled from her letters and papers by Alexander F. Bradshaw.

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 / with an introduction by field-marshal the earl Roberts / compiled from her letters and papers by Alexander F. Bradshaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    extracts do the characteristics of her mind and disposition. Catharine Grace Loch possessed to a notable degree the faculty of inspiring affection towards herself in the Sisters associated with her, and also of securing confidence on their part in her freedom from bias when action had to be taken respecting them. By her administrative ability, strikingly sound and tactful common sense, and by her decisive and level-headed judgement in complex and trying circumstances, she had obtained the high esteem of the medical authori- ties with whom she was brought into commu- nication. Undoubtedly under a less able and less judicious Pioneer the Indian Nursing Service could not have achieved the marked success which justified the Government of India in adding to the personnel and in extending the areas of usefulness. This Memoir may be said to reflect the real self of Miss Loch by its unconscious revelations of thought and feeling in her letters home, and I believe that perusal of its pages cannot fail to inspire and deepen the impression that she was endowed by nature with truly noble qualities. She had in rare combination intellectual ability,