It was nice of Roland to share Lawrie's letter with us: I hope those 
beautiful, and ancient cycads in the Xavier College front yard did not absorb 
any of the fire-works.
  It all came home to me, quite personally. A common wall had seperated us from 
the hospital, which in later years would train the women I studied with. For 
men, it was obstetrics at the St. George, which is of special memory, with 
it's convivial young consultants and naughty young patients in the well endowed 
'Seaman's Ward'.  CNN made it the world's best known hospital, if only for a 
day, I so wish the circumstances were happier. To satisfy a person who saw a 
connection to Kama - an irony, because it is a same sex faclity, female 
patients only and no male doctors - I reached for a '94 copy of Indica: here 
are some facts.
   It was built in 1897 by Pestonji Hormuz Cama who gave Women for India Fund 
three hundred thousand rupees of his HongKong opium trading fortune ( Roll's 
Byculla neighbours, the Readymoneys' and Jeejeboys' rode the same route to 
fortunes).  Some of the early staffers included Drs. Freny and Tehmina Cama of 
the first batch of women medical grads in Bombay, in 1982. The Albless Building 
was added by one Bomanji Edalji Albless in 1890.
  It is said that Queen Victoria personally wrote and asked Lord Dufferin to 
fund the attached school which trained nurses. ( Rolly, it is Cruickshank 
Road,  THAT other one was at Carnac, across from our school's hockey field ).



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