Ludhiana Medical College Archive

IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1530 Ludhiana Medical College Archive
Held at: Royal Free Hospital Archives Centre
Domain: archival
Title: Ludhiana Medical College Archive
Date(s) of contents: 1899-1994
Level of description: Fonds
Extent and medium: 2 boxes of archival material, including some photographs.

CONTEXT

Name of creator(s):
Ludhiana Medical College
North India School of Medicine for Christian Women
Women's Christian Medical College

Administrative/Biographical history: The Women's Christian Medical College, Ludhiana was founded in 1894 by Dr Edith Brown (1864-1956), a graduate of the London School of Medicine for Women. It had been decided at the 1893 Conference of Women Medical Missionaries that a medical school for women, attached to a women's hospital, was needed in India, and the Ludhiana Zenana Hospital accordingly offered to provide clinical facilities. The North India School of Medicine for Christian Women opened in the following year, with four staff and four students. In 1911, the School changed its name to the Women's Christian Medical College, to reflect the presence of non-Christian students. In 1915, the Lahore Medical College closed its women's department, and the female students transferred to Ludhiana. To reflect this change, the college added the statement "with which is incorporated the Punjab Medical School for Women" to its title. The Christian Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana celebrated its centenary in 1994.

Custodial history:

Immediate source of acquisition: The collection was presented by Professor Ruth Bowden, a great-niece of Dr Edith Brown.

CONTENT AND STRUCTURE

Scope and content/abstract: The collection includes: Annual Reports 1899-1950; pamphlets and fundraising brochures produced by the College 1901-1994; miscellaneous items connected with the College and Dr Edith Brown including a sampler; photographs of Brown c 1887-1948 and photograph of the plaque erected at her birthplace c 1996.

System of arrangement:

ACCESS AND USE

Language: English.

Conditions governing access:

Conditions governing reproduction: Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Archivist.

Finding aids:

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Compiled by Caroline Brick on behalf of the Mundus Project, with reference to a description held in the Genesis Database (originally prepared by Victoria North, Royal Free Hospital Archivist).

Date(s) of descriptions: October 2002.

INDEX ENTRIES

Subjects

Adult education institutions

Christians

Educational systems

Higher science education

Medical education

Medical missionaries

Medical missionary work

Mission educational institutions

Missionaries

Missionary medical training

Missionary training

Missionary training institutions

Missionary work

Photographs

Religious groups

Religous activities

Training centres

Visual materials

Women missionaries

Women's education

Women's missionary work

Personal names

Brown | Edith | 1864-1956 | doctor and founder of the Ludhiana Medical College

Corporate names

Ludhiana Medical College | India

North India School of Medicine for Christian Women | Ludhiana, India

Women's Christian Medical College | Ludhiana, India

Places

Asia

India

Ludhiana

South Asia