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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    Nov. 16.—I expect to have to take a week of night duty as we are still very heavy at the hospital. Sister H. though better is not to go on duty for a week, and I could not put her on night duty the first day she begins again, as it has already knocked her up twice running; and I would not, for the world, put Sister W. on and risk the possibility of knocking her up just before she starts her new work at Meerut, after with considerable trouble having got her into really very good health by dint of a whole summer at Murree, so there is nothing for it but for me to take a turn. Miss Loch records development of the organiza- tion of the Nursing Service:— There are to be four centres or circles as they are called, each to be quite distinct from and separate from the others and each answerable only to the Surgeon- General. Rawal Pindi, Meerut, Bangalore, and Poona will be the centres and each will have three or four branch stations with Acting-Superintendents in charge but under the control of and annually inspected by the circle Superintendent. In the meantime I am to have both the Pindi and the Meerut Circles. An annoying thing has lately happened : it is that there is a Circular out which says that two Sisters will be sanctioned for stations with hospitals of over sixty beds. But the principle is wrong. I had been fighting ever since I have been here to establish the principle (and at length got it agreed to) that three Sisters at least should always be together; twenty-four hours’ work is twenty-four hours’ work whether you have one bad case or fifty, and if the patients arc so