the public service her outlay is very small.
Beyond equipping herself for this work in certain special branches
already described, all that is necessary is that she should be able to
keep herself until she obtains a suitable post. The salary given for
whole time work in the public service should not be less than L250 a
year rising to L400 or L500 a year. In most cases the school doctor
gets the school holidays, including the whole of every Saturday.

English women who go to India, do so generally in connection with
either

(1) a missionary society, or
(2) a hospital under the Dufferin Fund.

(1) Many missionary societies engage medical women to treat the native
women. Salaries, of course, differ, but are, on the whole, low, as the
aim of a missionary is not supposed, primarily, to be financial gain.
Generally somewhere about L110 in English money is given, with
an allowance for carriage and house including the chief items of
furniture. Leave is also granted with second class return fare every
five years--in some missions every three years. The medical experience
is excellent, the opportunities of doing good professional work are
practically unlimited, and the professional position of the doctor
quite untrammelled. She is assisted, usually, by good nurses, under a
proper scheme, these being Indian girls superintended by fully trained
English sisters.

(2) Under the Dufferin Fund[2] things are very different. It is
somewhat difficult to speak of this branch of the work, as it is, at
the present time, the subject of enquiry, and it may be legitimately
expected that it will, before long, be put on a more satisfactory
basis. The fund was originally started by Lady Dufferin as the direct
result of a command by the late Queen Victoria, and it was intended
to provide the services of medical women for the Purdah women of India
who, owing to the strictness of their rules, were not infrequently
debarred from the full benefit of medical treatment by men.
Unfortunately, however, the doctor in charge of most of the Dufferin
Hospitals is under the local senior civil surgeon, who is a man. As
he has the right, if he wishes to exercise it, of seeing any of
the patients, and doing any of the operations or other treatment
necessary, it is obvious that the hospitals are of little or no use to
Purdah women, as they have no guarantee against treatment by a man.

There is also no security of tenure for the doctor who is not all