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- Permanent Link:
- https://digital.soas.ac.uk/AA00001539/00001
Notes
- Creation/Production Credits:
- Responsibility: James C. H. Balmain, Photographer and Vitro Enameller, 15 Maitland St., West End of Princes Street and 19 Salisbury Place, Newington, Edinburgh
- Biographical:
- Lydia Datt [Lydia Datt Pant] undertook a medical course at Agra and then worked for three years at the mission hospital there. In 1895 she came to study under Dr. Sophia Jex-Blake in her Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women. Lydia won a Cropper Scholarship in 1895 and 1897 and graduated LRCPS Ed LFPS Gl in 1899. She returned home to Almora and worked with the London Missionary Society in the hospital and Asylum for Lepers.
- Biographical:
- Lydia Prio Datt is noted to have passed her First Examination, Four Years' Course medical examinations with the Conjoint Board in Endinburgh, Scotland, 1896 -- as noted in: the British Medical Journal, 1896 August 1, page 304 (cf, https://europepmc.org/backend/ptpmcrender.fcgi?accid=PMC2510177&blobtype=pdf last referenced on 20200310)
- Ownership:
- This photograph was originally kept by Mrs Anne Jane Somerville, who became a Director of the London Missionary Society. She was close to Lydia Datt and cared for her when she became ill. The photographs were passed to the Council for World Mission by a descendant of Mrs Somerville.
- Donation:
- Donated to the Council for World Mission and passed to SOAS in November 2006
- General Note:
- For reports of medical work in Almora written by Lydia Datt pant, 1901-1902, see CWM/LMS/North India/Reports
- General Note:
- The London Missionary Hospital and Home, also known as the Mission to Lepers and later The Leprosy Mission, sometimes called the Asylum for Lepers, later became know as Snehalaya, a Hindi term meaning ‘a house of love’.
- Biographical:
- Lydia Pant was also known by her maiden name Lydia Datt. Medical reports are signed Lydia Pant.
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- SOAS University of London
- Holding Location:
- SOAS University of London
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