Show Lady Doctors in India Of all the boons which England can confer upon India says the Pall Mall Gazette lady doctors are probably the most needed It is to be hoped therefore there-fore that the Medical Women for India association will receive a liberal support from a discriminating public This society so-ciety collects funds for bringing out lady doctors to India starts dispensaries and is at present building a large hospital at Bombay which is superintended by women and open to female patients only The Grand Medical College of India has thrown its doors open to female students and the Bombay university has admitted all female students to compete for degrees students The on the same terms as male good work was originated by Mr Kett ridge an American resident in Bombay and Mr Sorabji Shapurii a Parsee gentleman gen-tleman Dr Edith Pechey the first English woman doctor in India had nine patients on the first day she arrived at Bombay in December 1883 Before a fortnight had passed there were three J I i hundred and the average number has ever since then remained one hundred day As there is work for twenty lady a doctors at Bombay alone althouh at the London school for medicine in lIen lietta street twothirds of the students are preparing for India the demand will not soon be supplied |