Women’s Medical Service for India

The Women’s Medical Service for India (also referred to as the Women’s Medical Service) was a state-funded medical service for women in British India. Until its foundation in 1913, medical care for women in India was limited to that provided by missionaries or charities like the Countess of Dufferin Fund[1][2][3].

Margaret Ida Balfour served as its first director until she retired in 1924.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Founding the Women's Medical Service in India: The Colonial State and the 'Medical Needs' of Indian Women - Oxford Scholarship". doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198096603.001.0001/acprof-9780198096603-chapter-5 (inactive 2018-09-04).
  2. ↑ "The Women's Medical Service". The Indian Medical Gazette. 48 (12): 477–478. December 1913. ISSN 0019-5863. PMC 5177146. PMID 29005794.
  3. ↑ "WOMEN'S MEDICAL SERVICE FOR INDIA". The Lancet. 204 (5270): 464. 1924-08-30. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(01)35671-4. ISSN 0140-6736.
  4. ↑ "'One of the great leaders among medical women in India'". Wellcome Library. Retrieved 2017-11-24.
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