Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-03-22
WOMEN PHYSICIANS.
Their struggles to Maintain Eooehotd =
Great Britain.

Great britain.
There are Just sixty women who
have taken medical diplomas emitting
them to enter their names on the Brit
ish register OF duly qualified medical
practitioners. OF these two are dead
and seventeen have gone to India,
leaving only forty-one in Great britain
OF the forty-one, twenty-one are en-
paged as lecturers or instructors in
the London and Edinburgh medical
colleges for women or as medical
officers to hospitals. dispensaries or
other institutions, leaving only twenty
who depend solely on private practice.
These facts were brought to my notice
during an afternoon at the London
Medical College for Women. and they
Indicate that the field for the profess
sional woman is under less thorough
cultivation abroad than in America.
And yet English women physicians
have taken high degrees at the univer-
stiles. Miss Ramsay's Cambridge sue
cesses made her famous but she did no
more than Miss Eeonora Fleury, who
was sent up by the London Medical
College for the medical examination OF
the Royal University OF Ireland, and
who took the highest position OF MI
the candidates entered, no male stu
dent approaching her record to a degree
that would entitle him to be ranked
in the same class. One large hospital
| in London is under the care OF women
| entirely, and three other hospitals and
| six dispensaries are managed wholly
or in part by women. The granting OF
the first medical posts in the civil SER
vice to women was tho work OF the late
Postmaster-General Fawcett. broth
er-in-law of Mrs. Elizabeth Garrett
Anderson, one OF the most successf IL
women physicians of England, and said
to be the only woman ply stefan who is
able to exact fees as high those de-
} mtnded by the most successful men.
Mr.. Fawcett appointed DIR. Edith
Shove medical officer for the female
staff of the general post-office. ard APP
J pointed three women as medical super
intendents to the London, Liverpool
, and Manchester post-offices. The
: North London Collegiate school for
, girls has a woman as its resident ply
3 stefan. and so has the Girls school at
, Sheffield. A woman is the medical ex-
\ aminer for the life insurance and an
g nuity fund for the general post-otfice
r And yet women with whom
: talked on the subject did MOI
: rate women's chances in medicine very
8 high. They said that with few
2 notable exceptions it was life ant
. death struggle for woman to build VI
o prac ice The bulwarks of conser
7 vatism stood fast against the innova
n ton, and the younger graduates were
II focking to India as medical mission
l. aries, superintendent of hospitals ant
i zenana physicians. in answer to {
l. very real demand and aided gener
'r ously by the fund established by tn
n Countess of Dufferin. The Lady Dut
q FERN Hospital. at Calcutta; the Kam
n Hospital. at Bombay; the Maternit.
of Hospital. at Lahore; the Medical Col
Is lege, at Madras; the Victoria Hospital
ir at Madr as; the hospital at Lucknow,
n dispensary at Poona, and numbers c
> other colonial Institutions are no,
10 differed, some wholly, some in part
lie by women, thus affording an Quite
fe for the talent which England seems i
A. no haste to employ at home. -Phils
st delphia Times.