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The Association of Nursing Superintendents was founded in 1905 at [[Lucknow]]. The organization was composed of nine European nurses holding administrative posts in hospitals. At the 1908 Annual Conference held in Bombay, a decision was taken to establish the Trained Nurses’ Association. This Association was inaugurated in 1909. The Association of Nursing Superintendents and the Trained Nurses’ Association were amalgamated in 1922 and renamed The Trained Nurses’ Association of India (TNAI).
The Up-Country Nursing Association for Europeans In India, founded in 1892 in the UK, sent trained nurses to India for employment under local committees nursing sick Europeans in up-country districts. Lady Minto’s Nursing Association, established 1906 in the UK, sent nurses to India,its chief object being to supply trained female nurses and midwives to patients requiring attendance either in their private residences or in public or private hospitals in any part of the Indian Empire . The former organisation later amalgamated with the latter. The Royal College of Nursing Archives (Edinburgh) (refer section below) holds the record "Lady Minto's Indian Nursing Association" (catalogue reference '''C/123''') .Staff numbers in [http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/data/VOLUME074-1926/page118-volume74-june1926.pdf 1926]. Emma Wilson was working in India with the Lady Minto’s Indian Nursing Association from the 1920’s? until 1947. She was Chief Lady Superintendent from 1938 to 1947. Wilson wrote ''Gone With the Raj'', published 1974.<sup>[[Nurse#Notes|3]] </sup>
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