Written from Boondi, Rajputana.
To say he is forwarding the 'Missionaries Petition' concerning the employment of female Medical Assistants, signed by most of their missionaries. In India they are in the midst of the gravest famine of the century and in the small native state where he is the distress is most acute. [Received London 10 Feb 1900]
'I have forwarded the 'Missionaries Petition' concerning the employment of Female Med Assistants'. For further information on the subject of 'Female Medical Assistants' see entries under heading INDIA National Association for supplying Female Medical Aid to the Women of India (Dufferin Fund)
Letter especially dealing with this 9 May 1899 Dr Kate Bushnell to Henry J Wilson
