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{{Infobox hospital
| name = St. Luke's Hospital, Nazareth
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| founded = 1870
| type = [[Private company|Private]]
| Location = [[Nazareth, Tamil Nadu]]
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| country = India
| website = {{URL|www.nazarethlukes.org}}
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| coordinates = {{Coord|8.558513|77.970353|display=inline,title}}
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'''St. Luke's Hospital''' is a private, Christian, minority-run hospital in [[Nazareth, Tamil Nadu]], [[India]]. It is administered by the [[Thoothukudi - Nazareth Diocese of the Church of South India|C.S.I. Thoothukudi–Nazareth Diocese]].

==History==
The hospital was established in 1870 by the first qualified doctor of Christian Mission in India,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Stock |first1=Eugene |title=The First Medical Missions |url=http://anglicanhistory.org/india/stock_beginnings/12.html}}</ref> [[John Strachan (bishop of Rangoon)|Rev. Dr. J. M. Strachan MD.]] of [[Edinburgh]], Scotland, a S.P.G. missionary dedicated to serving the poor and needy.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Office of the Surgeon General |first1=Indian Medical Department |title=Reports on civil dispensaries |date=1872 |page=54,55,56 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LbcIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA55&dq=nazareth+hospital+tinnevelly+strachan&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiL2eTkyOHbAhVDy7wKHSeyDYMQ6AEILDAB#v=onepage&q=nazareth%20hospital%20tinnevelly%20strachan&f=false}}</ref> Dr. Strachan worked in various parts of South India before opening the full-time regular medical mission at Nazareth.

Later on, Strachan was appointed as the Secretary of the Madras Diocesan Committee of S.P.G. (1874-1879) and then as Bishop of Rangoon in the year 1882. The hospital's administration was assumed by doctor and surgeon Rev. [[Arthur Margoschis]], who christened the hospital with its present name on St. Luke's Day, 18 October 1892.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Nazareth|first1=St.Luke's|title=St. Luke's Hospital at Nazareth|url=http://www.leprosarium.org/history.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Nazareth|first1=St.Luke's Hospital|title=St.Luke's Hospital|url=http://www.nazarethlukes.org/history.php}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Vellore|first1=Christian Medical College|title=ST. LUKE’S HOSPITAL NAZARETH|url=http://www.cmcvelloremissions.org/index.php/mission-network/item/28-st-luke-s-hospital-nazareth-tamil-nadu}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Parish Magazine|first1=Stinchcombe|title=Parish Magazine|journal=The Parish Magazine for Berkeley, Coaley, Dursley, King-Stanley, Stinchcombe, and Uley-cum-Owlpen|date=1880|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sgMIAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA7-PP12&dq=Margoschis+dursley+pakkiam&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi8mubiqv_ZAhVErI8KHVPeDr0Q6AEIJjAA#v=onepage&q=Margoschis&f=false}}</ref> Margoschis attended the hospital for two hours each day. A fee of one penny was charged for medicine and advice.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Allen|first1=William Osborne Bird|title=A parson's holiday : being an account of a tour in India, Burma, and Ceylon, in the winter of 1882-83|date=1885|publisher=Tenby : F. B. Mason|location=University of California Libraries|page=195|url=http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=sea:344#page/209/mode/1up}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Official website|http://www.nazarethlukes.org}}

{{Health in Tamil Nadu}}

[[Category:Voluntary hospitals]]
[[Category:Medical Council of India]]
[[Category:Companies established in 1870]]
[[Category:1870 establishments in India]]
[[Category:Hospitals in Tamil Nadu]]

St. Luke's Hospital, Nazareth - Revision history

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