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     3. Medical tution was carried out by the Fund granting scholarships to
young women willing to take up the profession of medicine, and by training
nurses and midwives.

     4. Medical Relief included the establishment under the superintendence
of medical women of hospitals and dispensaries for the treatment of women
and children; the opening of wards for women and children under female
superintendence in existing hospitals and dispensaries and the provision of
female medical officers for existing wards for women, as also the supply of
trained nurses and midwives for women and children in hospital and
private houses.

     5. Apart from the above activities, the great achievement of the Asso-
ciation was the manner in which it opened the eyes of the Indian public
to the sufferings of their womenkind and showed them how they could
organise and found a great national movement destined in time to bring
relief to millions, and to draw into its working cadre hundreds of young
Indian women who have given themselves freely to the service of their
country as doctors, nurses and midwives.

     6. Of the different provincial branches perhaps the one which showed it-
self most active was that of the United Provinces. It built and equipped
hospitals at Agra, Allahabad, Lucknow, Cawnpore and Benares, which
were all placed under the charge of medical women of the first class. This
Branch also employed an increasing number of women assistant and sub-
assistant surgeons to take charge of smaller hospitals and of women's wards
in Civil Hospitals. These were formed into a regular service, according to
their grades and had definite rules for pay, promotion and leave. In addi-
tion, the United Provinces Branch organised the Women's Medical School,
Agra, in which it was generously assisted by the Central Committee.

     7. The main activity of the Bengal Branch was the building and partial
endowing of a Women's Hospital at Calcutta.

     8. The Bombay Provincial Committee concentrated itself on organising
and supporting a Nursing School at the Cama Hospital, Bombay. Later
hospitals were opened at Shikarpur, Hyderabad, Karachi and Surat.

     9. The Central Provinces Branch opened hospitals at Jubbulpore and
Nagpur; the Berar branch at Amraoti, Akola, Shegaon and Yeotmal.

     10. In Baluchistan hospitals were opened at Sibi, Quetta and Fort
Sandeman; in Bihar at Gaya and Bhagalpur. The Dufferin Hospitals
were usually organised by Local Committees which had collected funds
locally and were assisted by grants from Provincial or Municipal Commit-
tees. But the funds were generally too small to allow of sufficient staff or
proper equipment and consequently most of the Dufferin Hospitals went
through many vicissitudes and financial crises. The formation of the
Women's Medical Service relieved the Local Committees of the task of
providing salaries for their medical women and the money thus released
was used in the improvement of the general staff and equipment of the
hospitals.