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===Training and Hospital Nursing===
The early days nursing situation in the 1860s in [[Calcutta are mentioned ]] and elsewhere is described on page 66, Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj by Jharna Gourlay 2003 [http://books.google.com/books?id=egysl1oHBI0C&pg=PA66 page 66] of (Limited View Google Books]. Female nursing was introduced in ) of ''Florence Nightingale and the Army in Madras in the late 1860’s, well before Calcutta, see [http://books.google.com/books?id=egysl1oHBI0C&pg=PA73 page 73] Health of the same bookRaj'' by Jharna Gourlay (2003). Read a review of this book by Ruth Compton [http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/llt/55/br_25.html review of this book] by Ruth Compton Brouwer].
Calcutta 1885 page 83, Our Viceregal Life in India, Volume I by Marchioness of Dufferin And Ava 2008 [http://books.google.com/books?id=CEUYY3Gu5kMC&pg=PA83 Limited View Google Books]
==Military Nurses in India==
Female nursing was introduced in army hospitals in [[Madras]] in the late 1860’s, well before Calcutta, see [http://books.google.com/books?id=egysl1oHBI0C&pg=PA73 page 73] (Limited View Google Books) of ''Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj'' by Jharna Gourlay (2003).
The Indian Nursing Service for the [[British Army]] in India was founded in 1888. Nurses were recruited in England. [http://books.google.com/books?id=cuIOAAAAQAAJ&lpg=PA114 Page 114] of Angels and Citizens: British Women as Military Nurses, 1854-1914 by Anne Summers 1988 ( Limited View Google Books) gives brief details of the conditions. The service became known as Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India in 1903, and in 1926 was amalgamated with Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service. This [http://www.scarletfinders.co.uk/8.html link] gives more details. Select 'British Military Nurses' and scroll down to Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India.
===Records at the British Library about Military Nursing===
