Colonial medicine
Trained army nurses in colonial India
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Trained female army nurses reached India after Nightingale, Crimea, and the 1857 uprising, but under tight class, age, and moral rules.
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Trained army nurses in colonial India
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Nurse probationer training began in 1871 at the General Hospital in Madras.
Through his initiative, the training of nurse probationers began in 1871 at the General Hospital in Madras
The Royal Sanitary Commission on the Health of the Army in India was appointed in 1859.
In response to this, the ‘Royal Sanitary Commission on the Health of the Army in India’ was appointed in 1859
Key findings
Male orderlies had done army nursing. Female presence was feared to ‘excite the passions’. Sisters faced pay cuts on sick leave, sudden transfers, and a demand that they be ‘ladies’ of good social position.
Methodology
George uses army and INS sources to follow Nightingale’s influence, the 1859 Royal Sanitary Commission, Madras civil training from 1871, and sisters’ station-hospital work.
Limitations
This is an early-INS institutional history, not a full census of Indian civil nursing or a biography of every presidency.
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