A GRACIOUS LADY
MARCHIONESS OF READING.
DEMISE ANNOUNCED,
(Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDOIST, January 30.
The death is announced of the Marchioness of . Reading, who before her marriage to the Marquess-of Reading (then Sir Rufus Isaacs) was Miss Cohen, third daughter of the late Mr Albert Cohen, a prominent London merchant.
The Marchioness had been ill since her return from India with her husband.
The newspapers speak of her beneficent social! work in India. Through h,er energetic appeals the sum of £100,()00 was raised to endow a hospital ;in -Simla- far women and children land the training of nurses, Sfie founded the' Indian National Baby Week, which has boon, instrumental in .tho reduction of the' enormously high infantile mortallity in . that country. ; ’ When her" health’ broke down she had so won her way to the hearts of the people that prayers for her recover^ 4 were said in temples, mosques and synagogues throughout the country.
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Northern Advocate, 1 February 1930, Page 9
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