The Work of Medical Women in India.

Abstract

The United States sent the first qualified medical woman to India sixty years ago. Since then many women physicians from America, England and other countries have gone to India as missionaries. The Association of Medical Women in India now consists of 281 members, publishes a quarterly journal, and conducts a medical college at Delhi, whose faculty members are women physicians. There are four women's medical schools where 351 students are studying for the subassistant surgeon's diploma. Progress is further indicated by such organizations as the India Association for Maternity and Child Welfare, and the India Association for the training of the indigenous dais, or midwife. There were no hospitals staffed by women in 1870, but in 1927 there were 183 such hospitals. This book is dedicated to those women who, during the last sixty years, have devoted their lives to improving the health of women in India. To understand their

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