Dept Employment Nm State

Dept Employment Nm State

Dept Employment Nm State

Dept Employment Nm State

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Elsie Maude Inglis (16 August 1864 – 26 November 1917) spent her early years in India with her family, until 1876 when they moved to Edinburgh. She studied there and in Paris: in 1886 she attended the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women, and then she gained the Triple Qualification Licentiateship of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1892. She set up medical practice in Edinburgh in 1894 together with Jessie McGregor.

In 1899 Elsie Inglis went on to obtain her MBChM from the University of Edinburgh, which was now open to women. She also lectured on gynecology in the Edinburgh Medical College for Women, and travelled to Vienna and the U.S.A. to improve her profession. Before World War I she worked mostly in medical care for women and children.

Suffragists to War – Founding the Scottish Women’s Hospitals (1914)

The founder chose this name for their organization with the aim of attracting personnel as well as sponsorships from feminists, but not only them. Even women who did not personally agree with female suffrage were admitted in the SWH as long as they wished to contribute to the war effort. Nevertheless, the latter category could not advance to an officer position in the organization, which also employed the red-white-green standard of the suffragists.


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