page_title: Janet Welch
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Janet Welch / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: From the dairy kept by Janet Welch during her last 2 years at school in Nottingham
context_page_description: Janet Welch Mackie MBE was an English doctor who worked mainly in East Africa and the United States. Her work, research and published material helped in establishing modern healthcare and nursing practices in the developing world. From 1926 until 1938 she worked as a medical missionary with the Church of Scotland, working mostly in Blantyre in modern day Malawi. In 1942 she emigrated to the United States. In 1946 she became an assistant professor at the Bowman Gray Medical School in North Carolina and eventually went on to become a medical consultant to the United States Public Health Service and World Health Organisation.
context_section_description: Janet Welch was born in March 1894 in the village of North Rauceby in Lincolnshire, England. She was the second daughter of William and Alice. William Welch was a farmer, as his father and grandfather had been. Janet’s mother also came from a farming family near Southwell in Nottinghamshire.
  Welch attended Sleaford High School until 1908 when her family moved to take over the Hall Farm in Thoroton, Nottinghamshire and, she transferred to Nottingham Girls High School. In her final year at the school she was head girl. Welch chronicled her final 2 years at school (1913 and early 1914) in a series of ink sketches, noting events both in and out of school.
caption: Janet Welch's sketch of the prize giving at Nottingham Girls High School, England in November 1913
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