WORE AMONG LEPERS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 40, 17 February 1933, Page 11

WORE AMONG LEPERS

FAMOUS WOMAN DOCTOR

The death was reported recently from Dichpali, the Leper Hospital settlement outside Nizamabad, of Dr. Isobel Kerr, the Scottish medical missionary, who made this famous institution the most prominent centre in South India for the treatment of leprosy and for training in diagnosis and treatment, states an exchange. Since Sir Leonard Rogers, at the Leper Research Centre at Calcutta, discovered the way to remedy and, in early cases, to cure leprosy by the injection of the essential principle of ehaulmoogra oil, Dr. Kerr,- working in'i close co-operation with Dr. Ernest Muir, j Sir Leonard Rogers's successor probably did more than any other person to demonstrate the immense value of the discovery and to prove that, in her own words, "no child need grow up a leper." Dr. Kerr was born at Fochabers-on-Spey in 1875. She graduated M.B. and Ch.B. at Aberdeen in 1903, and went to India with her husband, the Rev. George M. Kerr, who is superintendent of the Wesleyan Mission station at Nizamabad. She had charge for twelve years of the mission hospital there until the foundation of the Dichpali home, where husband and wife worked devotedly ever since. In 1923 she was awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind gold medal in recognition of her services. Personally, Dr. Kerr was a modest, quiet, and very lovable woman. Professionally, she was a-. keen, sound, skilful, and devoteddoctor, who rendered great service to India.