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Director of the Maternity and Child Welfare Section of the All-India Insti-
tute of Hygiene, Calcutta, but also by financing the whole of the Maternity
and Child Welfare Section of the Institute including the Model Welfare
Centre.

    18. The money allotted to the Dufferin Fund from the Silver Jubilee
Fund enabled the Committee to give substantial non-recurring grants for
the improvement of the women's hospitals at Karachi, Vizagapatam,
Allahabad, Shillong and Agra. Grants for much needed developments were
also promised from this Fund to the Hospitals at Calcutta, Benares,
Cawnpore, Akola, Amraoti, Nagpur and Jubbulpore. Plans were prepared
for rebuilding on modern lines the Dufferin Hospital at Quetta which had
been completely destroyed by the earthquake in 1935. A new hospital for
women was opened at Shillong and was placed under the management of
the Assam Branch of the Dufferin Fund. The Central Committee sanction-
ed the appointment of a W. M. S. officer as Medical Superintendent of this
hospital and gave generous grants towards its equipment and for building
House Surgeon's quarters.

    19. The plans for a new and up-to-date Dufferin Hospital at Calcutta
to replace the old and obsolete one were completed. It is hoped that this
new hospital when built, will form a Centre for a Post-graduate school for
medical women and for Research Work.

    20. During 1936 the Central Committee of the Dufferin Fund gave much
consideration to schemes for improving the nursing service in Dufferin hos-
pitals. It was fully realised that improvement can only be brought about
by raising the status of the nursing profession by attracting to it a better
class of girl and by offering her better conditions under which to live and
train. With this object in view the Committee sanctioned grants to certain
hospitals from the Silver Jubilee money to help them to build and furnish
new quarters for nurses, to improve the teaching equipment in training
schools for nurses, to employ better qualified sisters in training schools and
to enable nurses trained in India to take administrative courses in certain
large training schools for nurses.

    Only the fringe of this important problem has been touched so far, but
it is hoped these small beginnings will develop into a big movement which
will lead eventually to a nursing service in our Dufferin hospitals compar-
able to those in advanced European countries.

    21. There is great need in every direction for expansion in the work
of the Association. There is practically no medical aid to women in the
vast rural areas of India and many more hospitals and dispensaries for
women are wanted in the towns and cities. Also the
existing institutions ought to be modernised and brought up to
present day standards both as regards equipment and staffing. There is
enormous scope for the National Association for ministering to the physical
welfare of the women of India, but the Dufferin Fund can do little unless
more financial help is forthcoming either from the Government or from
private philanthropic sources.