110
CHAPTER VIII.
HOSPITALS.
Nurses,
In the middle of June 1897, with the rapid decline of the Plague,
all the temporary hospitals were closed owing to the monsoon. Parel,
Grant Road, and Arthur Road contained only a few acute cases, and it
was therefore decided to close Grant Road, to gradually clear Parel, and
to concentrate all Plague patients at Arthur Road.
This   arrangement   necessarily   released most of the English
Nurses:-
Miss Jones.
Miss Morey.
" Robinson.
" Katsch.
" Wheatley.
" Oram.
" Coleman.
" Franklin.
" Steele.
" Kendall.
" Reynolds.
" Hale.
Several of these were desirous of joining the Indian Nursing Service
at once, viz.:-
Miss Robinson.
Miss Coleman.
" Morey.
" Reynolds.
" Wheatley.

Others expressed their readiness to do so after completion  of their
year's current engagement, viz.:-
Miss Steele.
Miss Franklin.
" Kendall.
" Oram.
However, Miss Franklin and Miss Oram being still in Cutch Mandvi,
Miss Steele and Miss Wheatley were the only two who could be
spared. The first two ladies shortly afterwards, on their return from
Cutch Mandvi, were directed to report to the Surgeon-General, and
subsequently proceeded to the Front. Miss Wheatley was prevented by
ill-health from joining them in August. In the beginning of July Miss
Morey was appointed Lady Inspector at Khana Junction. Miss Coleman
and Miss Reynolds were temporarily engaged at the Committee Office.
Thus only three Nurses-Miss Jones, Miss Hale and Miss Wheatley-
were on duty at Arthur Road; but shortly afterwards, with the
outbreak of cholera, Miss Reynolds and Miss Coleman were detailed