The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-01-11
OF
I. EOFTH CAVELL
DIES SUDDENLY

I
lowing Immediately upon her return
from Russia, has just been announ-
| ced, was a great surgeon and a great
pioneer whose name is more famous
in the Balkans than it is in her own
country.
She was one of those women who, |
like Edith Cavell, are willing, even
eager, to give their lives not SO much
in the service of their own countr
merely but rather in the service OF
humanity wherever it may be suffer-
/ ing or oppressed.
/ Sier death was the direct result of
the privations which she had cheer
fully undergone during three years of
strenuous and unceasing labor on be-
half of the Serbians and Rumanians;
and when she recognized its immin-
ence she met it in a spirit of such
fearless confidence that a colleague
who was with her at the end exclaim-
ed, at was not like an ordinary
death; it was a positive Triumph
She used to say humorously that
men, she supposed, differed according
to climate or nationality, but that wo-
men, she was convinced. were the
same all the world over, and that it
was '%up to them to use and increase
their influence in international poll
tics with the object of promoting that
kind of understanding which would
ultimately lead to a lasting peace. She
& met the argument that man is a fight
I ing animal and will continue to be
fighting animal until the day of judg-
ment with the reply that there was
l plenty of scope within our own and
every other country for the exercise
of the fighting spirit, and she would
exclaim vehement1y that we might be-
gin with fighting capitalism, drink
disease and demolishing the sluma.
An Authority in Medicine
i She worked before the war at the
8 Edinburgh Hospital for Women and
Children, where she specialized in sur
I gerry, and was also lecturer in gynae-
D cology to the Royal Colleges School of
Medicine in Edinburgh. She had a
4 large and important private practice
q and took a leading part in all matters
q connected with the medical education
+ of the women of Scotland.
Directly the war broke out she Or
! gained the Scottish Women's Hospi-
4 tails, stated entirely by women and
offered to the Allies, by whom they
8 were Immediately accepted.
In April, 1915, when the Serbian
B typhus epidemic was at it's height, DR..
n Inglis went to Serbia to establish the
u Scottish Women's Hospitals there. She
a took with her staff of seventy-five
women, fifty tons of equipment and
sixteen cars, all, of course, driven by
Il women. She set to work at once in
central Serbia organizing units and es-
Y tabIishing them wherever the need
s was greatest
q When the great epidemic was fin
81 ally mastered DR.. Inglis remained at
81 her work in Serbia while this nation
e which had already fought its way he
TX roiealIy through one tragedy after
81 another, was invaded by fresh hordes
& Of the enemy. She took part in the
s. lamentable retreat, when out of co.
y 600 boys from the ages of II to Is
81 10000 died on the read. She saw
Il women and children frozen to death
b in each others arms and men taken
d frozen out of carts into which they
" had craWled to rest. She saw a ceme-
E terry where 10000 Serbs lay buried
IA E111S 1Ou5lL uSdL dhu u4oCo-oO INCL W
81 inch for the Serbia which she had
n come to love with undemonstrative
granitelike affection of a certain type
IS of Scotchwoman.
b In August, 1915, DR., tngiis went
81 with a Southern Siay Volunteer Corps
to the Dobrudja, and was attached
IA at her own request, to the Southern
d Slav Division which fought alongside
b the Russian troops. There, as in Ser
bia, she took part in the enforced re-
s. treat and fought disease and starva-
81 ton, starvation which was particular
81 ly poignant to witness at a time wheT
the sky was literally red with burning
granaries. She had no thought fol
her own comfort and preferred tt
Sleep the floor wrapped in a coat
n so as to be ready for any. emergency
At a time when the barn in which
she and her staff slept was heinf
heavily shelled she wrapped herself Ii
IS her coat and lay down tie sleep witt
the remarks 'tWell, good night ever.
& onej OF, if need be, geed-by!"
To see her at work it would ne#e
81 have occurred to anyone that she eve
N had an ache or pain, but she de
S~-N~AA Nk>O-
n a strong constitution, and the priva
~ tons which she had undergone TO
b over three years were beginning to tel
81 when she received orders to bring he
n unit back from Bessarabia- The jour
E ney from Arehangel was PARTICULAR
II stormy and lasted fourteen days. Dur
p ing this time Dr.. Inglis did not com
b plain of feeling i'll, but no sooner ha
she landed her unit safely in Eng
land than q. kind of collapse eEertoo
her and within a few hours she dice
She received the highest Serbia
honor for bravery in the field, but sh
81 died before any public recognition c
her services could be given her b
rs her own country Her colleagues ar
n not without hope that a posthunou
- honor may be awarded her, so tha
England may not be behind thos
allied nations which recognized in he
SS the great and essential qualities wiEc
~ make for international understandin;
a WILL STOP SUPPLY.
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