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LADY READING British Official Wireless (Rec. January 31, 5.5 p.m.) Rugby, January 30. The death is announced of the Marchioness of Reading, wife of the Marquess of Reading, former Viceroy of India. Lady Reading had been ill ever since her return from India with her husband. The newspapers speak of her beneficent social work in India. Through her energetic appeals the sum of £lOO,OOO was raised to endow a hospital In Simla for women and children and the training of nurses. She founded the Indian National Baby Week, which has been instrumental in reducing enormously the high rate of infantile mortality in that country. When her health broke down she had so won her way to the hearts of the people that prayers for her recovery .were said in the temples, mosques, and synagogues throughout the country.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 109, 1 February 1930, Page 11
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138OBITUARY Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 109, 1 February 1930, Page 11
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