WOMEN OF INDIA.
PRACTICAL TRAINING.
CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES.
2&KAIYA MlfttlOft WORK
'•Through fit-a'-tlcal demonstration of Christ inn principles the women of India fire beginning to disregard the theory of purdah and so rise out of their degradation." said Dr. fleafcatinee Carr. M.H.. B.S. (London). I).T, M. and H. (Rutland), who arrived In Auckland liv the Mariposa this morning. Dr. Carr has spent the last five year* doing medical work for the Zenana Mission irt India. She started her work in N'assik. Bombay, lnit for the last three years she has l>een in charge of the women's and children's hospital iu Patnrt. Hihar. ".Apart from the medical aspect of my work. I find the study of Indian women interest ing." said Dr. Carr. "At the hospital in I'atna I have as assistant two European trained nurses and two assistant women doctors who are lirftli Indians. It is interesting to watch the growth of interest in medical science among the Indian women. For centuries, owing to the Mohammedan in-
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 16, 20 January 1939, Page 9
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